Phyllonorycter pseudojezoniella Noreika 1994

Phyllonorycter pseudojezoniella Noreika, 1994 (Fig. 7D) Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.15E, 224 m alt., Acer saccharum, 26.VII.2016, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), 26.VIII.2016 em., NK-182-16 - 1 A / [20Pps-2016-male] (Fig. 7D), deposited in SIF. Leaf mine. Blotch mine on the lower side of the leaf, between two secondary veins, at the later stage gets contracted. Pupation in the mine. Trophic specialization. Host plant was not known (Noreika 1994). We found mines solely on the plant species originating from North America, Acer saccharum (Sapindaceae) (new record). Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK (Noreika 1994).
Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475
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