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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Cerdena J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7710689 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ZooKeys 20201124
The southwestern Andes of Peru harbors a hidden taxonomic diversity of Lepidoptera. Here a new leaf-mining species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) is described, <i>Phyllocnistis furcata</i> Vargas & Cerdeña, <b>sp. nov.</b>, from a dry Andean valley of southern Peru, at 2400 m above sea level. The morphological aspects of adults (male and female) and the immature stages associated with <i>Baccharis alnifolia</i> Meyen & Walp. (Asteraceae) are given, under optical microscopy and scanning electron ...[more]