Keiferiaazapaensis sp. nov., the first representative of the New World micromoth genus Keiferia Busck (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) associated with a member of Asteraceae.

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Biodiversity Data Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-20 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3897/BDJ.13.e141827

Héctor A Vargas

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Abstract

Background: The New World micromoth genus Keiferia Busck, 1939 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae, Gnorimoschemini) includes 21 described species, ten of which occur in South America. Like the tomato pinworm, K.lycopersicella (Walsingham, 1897), all the species of Keiferia, whose host plants have been documented, are associated exclusively with members of the family Solanaceae.

New information: Keiferiaazapaensis sp. nov. is described and illustrated, based on adults reared from leaf miner larvae collected on the shrub Trixiscacalioides (Kunth) D. Don (Asteraceae) in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Despite this unusual host plant, a Maximum Likelihood analysis, based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, placed the new species within a well-supported Keiferia clade. The discovery of the trophic association between K.azapaensis sp. nov. and T.cacalioides represents the first record of a member of Asteraceae as a host plant for the micromoth genus Keiferia.

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keiferiaazapensis sp. nov., Keiferia Busck（鳞翅目，球蛾科）与菊科相关的新世界小蛾属第一个代表。

背景：新大陆小蛾属Keiferia Busck， 1939（鳞翅目，小蛾科，小蛾科，Gnorimoschemini）共有21种，其中10种分布于南美洲。像番茄蛲虫，k.l lycopersicella (Walsingham, 1897)，所有的Keiferia种类，其寄主植物已被记录在案，都只与茄科的成员联系在一起。新资料：根据智利北部阿塔卡马沙漠Trixiscacalioides (Kunth) D. Don （Asteraceae）灌木上收集的叶虫幼虫饲养的成虫，描述和说明了keiferiaazapensis sp. 11 .。尽管这种不寻常的寄主植物，基于线粒体DNA序列的最大似然分析将新物种置于一个得到良好支持的凯夫属分支中。azapensis sp. nov.与t.c alalioides之间的营养联系的发现代表了菊科成员作为Keiferia小蛾属寄主植物的首次记录。

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Biodiversity Data Journal Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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