A new species of Scrobipalpula Povolný (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) associated with Baccharis salicifolia (Asteraceae) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Héctor A. Vargas

doi:10.1080/01650521.2019.1663588

A new species of Scrobipalpula Povolný (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) associated with Baccharis salicifolia (Asteraceae) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Héctor A. Vargas

Department of Environmental Resources

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Abstract

Male and female adults of Scrobipalpula wilsoni sp. nov. are described and illustrated from the coastal valleys of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, based on specimens reared from leaf tier larvae collected on the shrub Baccharis salicifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. (Asteraceae). The morphology of the male genitalia of S. wilsoni resembles that of S. transiens Povolný, 1987, endemic to central Chile; however, morphological details of the uncus, gnathos, valva, the paired process of the sacculus and the phallus enable separation of the two species. Pairwise distances of a DNA barcode sequence of S. wilsoni with congeneric species ranged from 7.4 to 9.2% (K2P). urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:28FFDB34-2BBF-4E99-B35A-8BD84DF33E96.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	217-224
Number of pages	8
Journal	Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
Volume	54
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2019.1663588
State	Published - 2 Sep 2019

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Leaf tier larvae
Scrobipalpula psilella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
Scrobipalpula transiens Povolný, 1987

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A new species of Scrobipalpula Povolný (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) associated with Baccharis salicifolia (Asteraceae) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

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