TY - JOUR
T1 - A new species of Scrobipalpula Povolný (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) associated with Baccharis salicifolia (Asteraceae) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile
AU - Vargas, Héctor A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/9/2
Y1 - 2019/9/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Leaf tier larvae
KW - Scrobipalpula psilella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
KW - Scrobipalpula transiens Povolný, 1987
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85073599929
U2 - 10.1080/01650521.2019.1663588
DO - 10.1080/01650521.2019.1663588
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073599929
SN - 0165-0521
VL - 54
SP - 217
EP - 224
JO - Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
JF - Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
IS - 3
ER -