Urticaceae-feeders from the family Tischeriidae: descriptions of two new species and new genus Paratischeria gen. nov.

Jonas R. Stonis; Arūnas Diškus; Brigita Paulavičiūtė; Alex K. Monro

doi:10.6001/biologija.v63i1.3470

Jonas R. Stonis
Arūnas Diškus
Brigita Paulavičiūtė
Alex K. Monro

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6001/biologija.v63i1.3470

Keywords: The Andes, leaf-mines, new genus, new species, Paratischeria, Phenax Wedd., South America, Tischeriidae, Urticaceae

Abstract

We describe a new genus Paratischeria Diškus & Stonis, gen. nov. and present the first observations of Urticaceae-feeding Tischeriidae species in South America and two new Urticaceaefeeding species (Paratischeria fasciata sp. nov. and P. ferruginea Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. from the Andes of Bolivia and Ecuador). Together with the African P. urticicolella (Ghesquière) (comb. nov.) from Congo, they are attributed to the newly designated ferruginea species group.