Telamoptilia grewiae Liu, Wang &amp; Li 2015
Creators: name: Jiang, Yurong
name: Zhao, Yang
name: Wang, Encui
name: Zhang, Tongyou
name: Liu, Tengteng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gracillariidae
Telamoptilia
Telamoptilia grewiae

description: <i>Telamoptilia grewiae</i> Liu, Wang &amp; Li, 2015 (Figs 2B, 4B, 5E) <i>Telamoptilia grewiae</i> Liu, Wang &amp; Li, 2015: 121. TL: China (Tianjin). TD: NKU. Diagnosis. The species resembles <i>T. prosacta</i> (Meyrick, 1918), but can be separated by the male genitalia with tegumen having 3−4 long setae on each lateral side, the valva same width on basal 3/4; the female genitalia with ductus bursae not reaching anterior margin of the seventh abdominal segment, the signum without a median process. In <i>T. prosacta</i>, the tegumen has 9−12 long setae on each lateral side, the valva is widest at middle; the ductus bursae are two times longer than the seventh abdominal segment, and the signum has a median process. Description. Adult. Wingspan 5.8−6.3 mm, head smooth, bright white, face slightly brown. Labial palpus white, with end of second segment and middle of outer side of third segment brown, sometimes inner side of these two parts slightly brown. Scape brown, white dorsally; flagellum light brown with metallic luster and white base. Thorax and tegula brown. Legs white, femur and tibia having black dots, tarsus with black rings on distal part of each segment. Forewing brown, with four white stripes on costa 1/6, 1/3, 1/2 and 2/3, respectively, edged with dark scales, median two wider and cross wing, others shorter than half length of wing; apical area with several white spots; cilia around apex black, light brown on dorsum. Hindwing and cilia light brown. Male genitalia. Tegumen slightly dilated at middle, rounded apically, two rows of long setae along median line, with two setae before apex. Valva longer than tegumen, basal 3/4 equal in width, distal 1/4 gradually narrowed, apex blunt. Saccus somewhat triangular, rounded apically. Phallus straight, about as long as valva, distal part strongly sclerotized, with a pointed process distally, vesica with two patches of micro setae. Eighth tergite with apodeme reaching posterior 1/3 of seventh segment, nearly parallel-sided. Female genitalia. Apophysis anteriores as long as posteriores. Antrum a ring, disconnected ventrally, embed with a heavily sclerotized belt medially. Ductus bursae membranous, extremely short, not reaching anterior margin of seventh segment, wrinkled basally, without spines. Corpus bursae oval, membranous, without spines; signum slender and long, curved by about 150° medially, posterior half slightly S-shaped, anterior half curved at anterior 2/5, sometimes slightly Cshaped. Material examined. Shandong: 1&amp;male; 3&amp;female;, Yaoxiang National Nature Reserve, Jinan, 36.328°N, 117.122°E, 700 m, 2016.VIII.8, leaf mines collected on <i>Grewia biloba</i>, emerged 2016.VIII.19, 21, 22, leg. Tengteng Liu, genitalia slide nos. LIU0033 &amp;male;, JYR17052 &amp;female;, JYR17047 &amp;female;, registration nos. SDNU. JN160818, SDNU. JN160820−22. Host plant. <i>Grewia biloba</i> G. Don and its variety <i>parviflora</i> Hand. –Mazz. (Malvaceae). Distribution. China (Shandong, Tianjin) (Liu <i>et al.</i>, 2015 for Tianjin).
description: Published as part of <i>Jiang, Yurong, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Encui, Zhang, Tongyou &amp; Liu, Tengteng, 2021, Taxonomic review on Acrocercopinae, Gracillariinae and Ornixolinae from Shandong, China, with new data on distribution and host associations (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), pp. 240-257 in Zoological Systematics 46 (3)</i> on page 251, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021306, http://zenodo.org/record/7176092
description: {"references": ["Li, H., Wang, Z., Hu, B. 2015. Four new species of Epicephala Meyrick, 1880 (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae) associated with two species of Glochidion (Phyllanthaceae) from Hainan Island in China. ZooKeys, 508: 53 - 67. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 508.9479.", "Liu, T., Wang, S., Li, H. 2015. Description of Telamoptilia grewiae sp. n. and the consequences for the definition of the genera Telamoptilia and Spulerina (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae). ZooKeys, 479: 121 - 133. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 479.8899."]}