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Nepticuloidea
Acalyptris limonii Laštuvka, Z. & A., 1998
Acalyptris limonii
Diagnostic description:Diagnosis. A distinctly fasciate species, resembling A. lesbia. Female easily recognised by conspicuous anal tuft; A. limonii is much darker than A. maritima. Superficially resembling several Ectoedemia species. Male genitalia separated from the similar A. maritima and lesbia by narrow, pointed gnathos, uncus much longer than in maritima, about equal to lesbia. Female genitalia easily recognised from the other Limonium feeders by the tufts on T7 (sockets visible in preparations); the very hairy anal papillae and S7 are similar to A. lesbia and A. limoniastri. The latter also has similar male genitalia, but lacks the pointed uncus and has much larger male genitalia.
Morphology:Description. Male. Forewing length 1.9 mm, wingspan 4.1–4.3 mm. Head: frontal tuft ochreous yellow, scape white with few ochreous scales. Antenna with 32 segments. Thorax and forewing white, covered with dark-tipped scales; dark tips half scale length; a narrow fascia at 2/3, cilia white, cilia line present. Hindwing grey-white, dark costal bristles. Underside of forewing brownish, hindwing white; white hairpencil from underside near frenulum. Abdomen grey brown, with conspicuous yellowish white anal tufts.
Female. Forewing length 2.3 mm (1), wingspan 4.8 mm. Antenna with 32 segments. Abdominal tip with conspicuous yellow anal tufts, more or less paired.
Male genitalia. Measurements: see Table 3. Vinculum rounded with ventral plate narrow; lateral arms slightly expanded ventrally. Tegumen forming slightly produced pseuduncus with many setae dorsally. Uncus with long, pointed central element. Gnathos with a long narrow spatulate central element. Valva length not measured (not flat in slide), basally broadest; tip slightly produced inwards, with many thick setae dorsally; transtilla with almost straight transverse bar and short sublateral processes. Aedeagus with ventral carina bifurcate, pointed; lateral carinae strongly curved dorsad. Vesica without any cornuti.
Female genitalia. Paired tufts of many scales on T7, no setae. T8 trapezoid, slightly indented mesially, with a small patch of few setae and scales. T9 with two groups of ca 45–50 setae. S7 also with many long setae near abdominal tip. Vestibulum and bursa flimsy, without sclerotisations, bursa hardly reaching beyond segment 7. Ductus spermathecae with 2 narrow convolutions.Associations:Hostplant: Limonium cf. vulgare (see under group description), growing in salt marshes.
Egg on either side of leaf. Leafmine a gallery throughout, starting much contorted, often spirally, later a full-depth mine with narrow broken frass, running more straight through leaf. Larval exit hole on leaf upperside. Mines indistinguishable from those of A. maritima or A. lesbia.
Cocoon white, usually spun on leaf underside.Distribution:Coasts of Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean Seas: recorded from Croatia (new record) and Greece.
Citation:This taxonomic description is based on Van Nieukerken (2007).
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Acalyptris limonii is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found along the coasts of Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean Seas, where it has been recorded from Croatia and Greece.
The wingspan is 4.1-4.8 mm.
The larvae feed on Limonium vulgare. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a gallery, starting much contorted, often spirally, but later becoming a full-depth mine with narrow broken frass, running more-or-less straight through the leaf. The exit hole is located on the leaf upperside. The cocoon is white and usually spun on the underside of the leaf.
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