Lyonetia (Lyonetia) prunifoliella Zhang 1965
Creators: name: Liu, Shiyu
name: Liu, Tengteng
name: Yu, Jiazhi
name: Xu, Jiasheng
name: Teng, Kaijian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lyonetiidae
Lyonetia
Lyonetia prunifoliella

description: Lyonetia (Lyonetia) prunifoliella (Hübner, 1796)
(Figs 10–11, 17a–b, 22, 22a)
dzȗdzḋ [Chinese name]
Tinea prunifoliella Hübner, 1796: p. 28, f. 191, part 8, Tineae.
Tinea padifoliella Hübner, 1813: p. 46, f. 316, part 8, Tineae.
Elachista albella Eversmann, 1844: 600.
Argyromiges acerfoliella Curtis, 1850: 118.
Lyonetia speculella Clemens, 1862: 134.
Lyonetia schineri Nowicki, 1864: 28.
Lyonetia apicistrigella Chambers, 1875: 105.
Lyonetia prunifoliella (Hübner): Issiki, 1932: 1481, f. 2932.
Diagnosis. This species is similar to Lyonetia (Lyonetia) anthemopa, feeding on Pyracantha angustifolia, P. crenulata and Photinia lucida (Rosaceae), but can be distinguished by the following characters. In L. (Lyonetia) prunifoliella, the forewing has an apical pencil from mid of apical transverse line; in the male genitalia, the gnathos apex has three pairs of projections (Fig. 17b); in the female genitalia, the ductus bursae has a ‘T’-shaped sclerotized plate (Figs 22, 22a). In L. (Lyonetia) anthemopa, the forewing has no apical pencil (Kuroko 1964: pl. 1, figs 4a & 4b); the gnathos has two pairs of projections (Kuroko 1964: pl. 8, fig. 44); the ductus bursae has a falciform sclerotized plate (Kuroko 1964: pl. 13, fig. 67).
Material examined (all China). In total, 6 ♁, 11♀, 1 ex abdomen missing. 4♁, 8♀, Shandong, Qingdao, Mt. Fu, 36.040°N, 120.240°E, el. 70–300 m, 30.vi.2018, mine in leaf of Prunus triloba, leg. Tengteng Liu, field no. LTT00220, SDNU. Ent 001243–46 (genitalia slide no. LSY0069 ♁), SDNU. Ent 001247–51 (genitalia slide no. LSY0073 ♀), SDNU. Ent 001252–53; 1♀, Shandong, Qingdao, Mt. Lao (Beijiushui), 36.091°N, 120.423°E, el. 70- 300 m, 1.vii.2018, leg. Tengteng Liu, SDNU. Ent 000301; 1♀, Shandong, Jinan, Yaoxiang Forest Farm, 36.347°N, 117.103°E, el. 400 m, 4.vi.2019, leg. Tengteng Liu and Zhongfeng Jiang, SDNU. Ent 008457; 1♁, Shandong, Yantai, Mt. Kunyu (positioning station), 37.195°N, 121.132°E, el. 300 m, 16.vi.2021, leg. Tengteng, Kaijian Teng and Xiaoping Geng, SDNU. Ent 035110 (LSY0064); 1♁, 1♀, Shandong, Yantai, Mt. Kunyu (Branch No. 1), 37.268°N, 121.758°E, el. 300 m, 15.x.2021, mine in leaf of Malus pumila, leg. Tengteng and Xiaoping Geng, field no. LU00193, SDNU. Ent 028197 (LM0194 ♀), SDNU. Ent 028198; 1 ex abdomen missing, Shaanxi, Baoji, Taibai, 34.015°N, 121.482°E, el. 2300 m, 18.vii.2018, leg. Tengteng Liu, SDNU. Ent 000694.
Host plants. Prunus triloba Lindl. (Figs 28–30), P. salicina Lindl., Malus spectabilis (Ait.) Borkh., M. asiatica Nakai, M. pumila Mill., M. baccata (L.) Borkh., M. toringo (Siebold) Siebold ex de Vriese (Rosaceae) (Zhang 1965, Lyu et al. 2010). Hosts recorded in other parts of the world: Prunus cerasus L., P. pensylvanica L. f., P. spinosa L., Sorbus spp., Cotoneaster spp., Crataegus spp., Mespilus spp., Cydonia spp. (Rosaceae); Betula pubescens Ehrh., B. papyrifera Marshall, B. populifolia Marshall (Betulaceae); Ceanothus americanus L., C. integerrimus Hook. & Arn., C. thyrsiflorus Eschsch. (Kuroko 1964, Schmitt et al. 1996, De Prins 2003, Baryshnikova 2007, Laštůvka & Laštůvka 2015).
Distribution. China (Anhui, Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi) (Shen et al. 2014, Lu & Liu 1993); Europe (except the Netherlands and Luxembourg), Central Asia, East Asia (Japan, South Korea), North America, Russia (except the northernmost part), Turkey (Heath & Emmet 1985, Schmitt et al. 1996, De Prins 2003, Seven 2006, Baryshnikova 2007).
description: Published as part of Liu, Shiyu, Liu, Tengteng, Yu, Jiazhi, Xu, Jiasheng & Teng, Kaijian, 2023, The leaf-mining genus Lyonetia Hübner from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Lyonetiidae), pp. 100-120 in Zootaxa 5357 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10012625