Lampronia altaica

L. altaica Zagulajev

Adult Characteristics

Description in Zagulajev (1992) with head, legs, and male genitalia depicted. Female depicted in Kozlov (1996). Wingspan male 10-5-11.5 mm, female 9 mm. Forewing brownish gray, with purplish violet lustre. Three yellowish orange spots along costa, and two along rear edge; basal spots at times alomost merging into a band. Hindwing uncolored brownish gray with a metallic lustre.

Comparison with similar species

None available to me.

Host, oviposition, and larval feeding habits

No information is available.

Geographic distribution

Known only from the Altai Mountains of central Asia and from Ryanggang province, North Korea.

Habitat

Not reported.

References

Kozlov, M.V. 1996. Incurvariidae and Prodoxidae (Lepidoptera)
          from Siberia and the Russian Far East, with descriptions of 
          two new species. Entomol. Fenn. 7:55-62. 
Zagulajev, A.K. 1992. New and little known microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera:
          Incurvariidae, Tineidae, Psychidae, Alucitidae) of the fauna of 
          the USSR. V.   Entomol. Obozr. 71:105-120.

Holotype in Zoological Institute, Leningrad.

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Olle Pellmyr
E-mail: pellmyr@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu.
Dept of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Box 1812-B Nashville, TN 37235, USA

Title illustration: To be obtained