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Nepticuloidea
Acalyptris lesbia Van Nieukerken & Hull, 2007
Acalyptris lesbia
Diagnostic description:Diagnosis. Externally A. lesbia resembles A. limonii, but the female lacks the conspicuous anal tuft. Males identified with certainty by examination of genitalia: gnathos triangular, wider than in limonii, but distinctly narrower than in maritima, uncus narrow and pointed as in limonii. Aedeagus distinctly longer than in maritima. Female genitalia resemble limonii in the hairy anal papillae and S7, but lack the conspicuous tufts on T7.
Morphology:Description. Male. Forewing length 1.7–2.1 mm, wingspan 4.0–4.6 mm. Head: frontal tuft and collar white or ochreous, mixed with dark grey scales; scape hidden in tuft, some brown-tipped scales, flagellum grey. Antenna with 28–34 segments. Thorax and forewing white, irrorate with brown-tipped scales; white fascia at 2/3, some additional white spots basally may be present; cilia white, cilia line present. Hindwing narrow, grey, with costal bristles. Underside of forewing and hindwing dark brown or grey. Abdomen dark grey with conspicuous yellow anal tufts.
Female. Forewing length 1.9–2.2 mm, wingspan 4.4–4.8 mm. Antenna with 29–31 segments. Abdominal tip broadly rounded, no tufts present.
Male genitalia. Measurements: see Table 3. Vinculum rounded, ventral plate narrow, with ventral, triangular posterior process; lateral arms slightly expanded ventrally. Tegumen forming distinctly produced, rounded pseuduncus with many setae dorsally. Uncus with long, pointed central element, strongly curved posteriorly. Gnathos with triangular central element, longer than broad, lateral arms not ‘swollen’. Valva basally broadest; tip slightly produced inwards, with many thick setae dorsally; transtilla with slightly curved transverse bar and short sublateral processes. Aedeagus with ventral carina bifurcate, long, pointed; lateral carinae strongly curved dorsad. Vesica without cornuti.
Female genitalia. Two groups of 6–8 setae along posterior margin of T7. T8 trapezoid, slightly indented mesially, without setae and scales. T9 with two groups of more than 50 setae. S7 also with many setae near abdominal tip. Vestibulum and bursa flimsy, without sclerotisations, bursa hardly reaching beyond segment 7, total bursa length from cloaca ca 375 μm. Ductus spermathecae with 2 narrow convolutions.
Final instar larva. Head capsule ca 350 μm wide, see further group description.Associations:Hostplant: Limonium gmelinii (det. J. Edmondson). The hostplant grows here on the edges of the dunes, either close to the sea in sand or close to the salt marsh amongst grass. The host does not grow on the salt marsh proper.
Egg on either side of leaf. Leafmine a full-depth mine, gallery throughout, starting much contorted, often spirally, later a full-depth mine with narrow broken, brown, frass, following straighter course through leaf. Larval exit hole on leaf upperside. Mines not separable from those of A. maritima or A. limonii.
Cocoon white, usually spun on leaf underside.Distribution:Greece, Lesvos. Only found at Skala Kallonis, and not found on other sites with the host on Lesvos, nor on Khios (pers. comm. M. Hull).
Citation:This taxonomic description is based on Van Nieukerken (2007).
EOL Text
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 3 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
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Specimens with Barcodes: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
Acalyptris lesbia is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is only known from Skala Kallonis on Lesbos in Greece.
The wingspan is 4-4.8 mm.
The larvae feed on Limonium gmelinii. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a full-depth gallery, starting much contorted, often spirally, later becoming a full-depth mine with a narrow broken, brown frass line, following a straighter course through the leaf. The larval exit hole is located on the upperside of the leaf. The cocoon is white and usually spun on the underside of the leaf.
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