Stigmella quercipulchella
Creators: name: Stonis, Jonas R.
name: Diškus, Arūnas
name: Remeikis, Andrius
name: Navickaitė, Asta
name: Rocienė, Agnė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nepticulidae
Stigmella
Stigmella quercipulchella

description: The quercipulchella group
Diagnostic characters (Fig. 42): forewing always with fascia, androconial scales sometimes developed; in male genitalia, uncus always with two short broad lateral lobes, gnathos always with two posterior processes, anterior processes of gnathos usually long, transtilla with very short (or none) sublateral processes, aedeagus always with numerous spine-like cornuti aggregated into a band, manica always present (large or small); in female genitalia, accessory sac always strongly developed (very long or broad) and always spiral (coiled), without spines, corpus bursae always without signa.
Host-plant preferences. Subgenus Quercus, section Lobatae (Fig. 37).
Distribution and taxonomic diversity. Comprises five species. Nearctic: Stigmella quercipulchella (Chambers, 1878); S. variella (Braun, 1910); S. altella (Braun, 1914).
Neotropical (Central American): Stigmella guatemalensis Diškus & Stonis, 2013; S. species 515 (Stonis et al. 2013a).
The ruficapitella group
Diagnostic characters (Fig. 43): forewing predominantly unicolorous, sometimes with fascia or with spots; androconial scales often developed; in male genitalia, uncus almost always with two long, narrowed, well separated lateral lobes, gnathos almost always broadly U-shaped, anterior processes of gnathos either very short or absent, aedeagus always with numerous spine-like cornuti aggregated into a full or broken band, manica often developed; in female genitalia, accessory sac often large or very large, usually with short or large spines (sometimes spines absent), corpus bursae often reduced, signa absent.
Host-plant preferences. Usually genus Quercus (subgenus Quercus), sections: Quercus, Cerris, Mesolobatus; sometimes other genera of Fagaceae (Castanopsis, Castanea: a few oligophagous representavites of the ruficapitella group) or Betulaceae: monophagous Stigmella tristis (Wocke) on Betula (Fig. 37).
Distribution and taxonomic diversity. Comprises 29 species, all in the Palaearctic Region.
West Palaearctic: Stigmella atricapitella (Haworth, 1828); S. ruficapitella (Haworth, 1828); S. samiatella (Zeller, 1839); S. basiguttella (Heinemann, 1862); S. tristis (Wocke, 1862); S. suberivora (Stainton, 1869); S. ilicifoliella (Mendes, 1918); S. zangherii (Klimesch, 1951); S. svenssoni (Johansson, 1971); S. dorsiguttella (Johansson, 1971); S. roborella (Johansson, 1971); S. eberhardi (Johansson, 1971); S. szoecsiella (Borkowski, 1972); S. macrolepidella (Klimesch, 1978); S. trojana Z. Laštuvka & A. Laštuvka, 1998; S. fasciata van Nieukerken & Johansson, 2003; S. cocciferae van Nieukerken & Johansson, 2003; S. bicuspidata van Nieukerken & Johansson, 2003; S. karsholti van Nieukerken & Johansson, 2003; S. kasyi van Nieukerken & Johansson, 2003.
East Palaearctic: Stigmella aladina Puplesis, 1984; S. omelkoi Puplesis, 1984; S. fervida Puplesis, 1984; S. fumida Kemperman & Wilkinson, 1985; S clisiotophora Kemperman & Wilkinson, 1985; S. kao van Nieukerken & Liu, 2000; S. crenatiella Hirano, 2010; S. azuminoensis Hirano, 2010; S. hisakoae Hirano, 2010.
Note. S. dentatae Puplesis, 1984 (because the basally bulbous aedeagus with coiled vesica), and S. circumargentea van Nieukerken & Liu, 2000 (because the feeding on Lithocarpus) are excluded from the ruficapitella group here for the first time and transferred to the castanopsiella group.
description: Published as part of Stonis, Jonas R., Diškus, Arūnas, Remeikis, Andrius, Navickaitė, Asta & Rocienė, Agnė, 2013, Description of new species of oak leaf-miners (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae), with notes on the species groups of Stigmella Schrank associated with Quercus as a host-plant, pp. 201-222 in Zootaxa 3737 (3) on pages 218-219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248218