Arūnas Diškus - VPU biblioteka - Vilniaus pedagoginis universitetas
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3.3. CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE NEPTICULIDAE OF OMAN,<br />
INDIA AND NEPAL<br />
Study of material collected from Oman and the Indian subcontinent yielded<br />
34 species of Nepticulidae. Two of them are probably boreal (occuring in the high<br />
Himalaya) while others are tropical. Twelve species from the 34 recognized in<br />
total are described as new to science (Table 3).<br />
The discovery of such species as Stigmella hoplometalla and Acalyptris<br />
melanospila, occuring on the western slopes of the Himalaya but previously known<br />
only from Bombay suggests a much wider distribution of these species in the<br />
Indian subcontinent.<br />
Three closely related species (i. e., Acalyptris melanospila, A. auratilis and A.<br />
nigripexus), found in the same habitat of Himalayan tropical montane forest and<br />
characterized by a similar adult activity period are assumed to be of sympatric<br />
origin.<br />
It is interesting that the newly described Stigmella tenebrica from the high<br />
Himalaya morphologically resembles more the European S. sorbi, than the species<br />
of the same species-group occuring in the geographically closer territories of<br />
Central Asia.<br />
Table 3. Nepticulidae species in countries of South Asia: OM – Oman, IN – India, NP –<br />
Nepal, LK – Sri Lanka<br />
Genera and species<br />
OM IN NP LK<br />
Enteucha Meyrick l<br />
1. diplocosma (Meyrick, 1921) l<br />
Stigmella Schrank l l l l<br />
2. isochalca (Meyrick, 1916) l<br />
3. sruogai Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
4. nepali Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
5. omani Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
6. xystodes (Meyrick, 1916) l<br />
7. liochalca (Meyrick, 1916) l<br />
8. ipomoeella (Gustafsson, 1976) l<br />
9. himalayai Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
10. fibigeri Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
11. elegantiae Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
12. maculifera Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
13. skulei Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
14. tenebrica Puplesis & <strong>Diškus</strong>, 2003 l<br />
15. polydoxa (Meyrick, 1911) l<br />
16. homophaea (Meyrick, 1918) l<br />
17. argyrodoxa (Meyrick, 1918) l<br />
18. neodora (Meyrick, 1918) l<br />
19. aeriventris (Meyrick, 1932) l<br />
20. hoplometalla (Meyrick, 1934) l l<br />
21. elachistarcha (Meyrick, 1934) l<br />
22 oligosperma (Meyrick, 1934) l<br />
20
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