Lusterala

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Lusterala
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Lusterala
Brown & Nishida, 2007 [1]
Species:
L. phaseolana
Binomial name
Lusterala phaseolana
Brown & Nishida, 2007 [1]

Lusterala is a monotypic, neotropical genus of tortix moths provisionally assigned to tribe Grapholitini of subfamily Olethreutinae, with Lusterala phaseolana as sole species. [2] [1]

Genus and species were both described in 2007 by John Wesley Brown and Kenji Nishida. [2] [1] [3] The holotype is conserved at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. [1] Based on DNA barcoding, the genus is possibly a synonym of Ecdytolopha . [4]

Behaviour and distribution

Lusterala phaseolana is known from Costa Rica. [2] [1] Its larvae are gall-inductive on the stems of their host plant, lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.). [2] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Baixeras, J.; Brown, J. W. & Gilligan, T. M. "GENUS Lusterala". Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Brown, John; Nishida, Kenji (1 April 2007). "A new gall-inducing tortricid (Lepidoptera : Tortricidae : Olethreutinae) on lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus; Fabaceae) from Costa Rica". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 109. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  3. "LUSTERALA - Butterflies and Moths of the World". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  4. Brown, John W. (July 2022). "A review of host plants for the tortricid tribe Grapholitini, with a synopsis of host utilization by genus (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)". Insecta Mundi. 0944: 8. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  5. Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson; Santos, Jean Carlos (26 June 2014). Neotropical Insect Galls. Springer. p. 505. ISBN   978-94-017-8783-3 . Retrieved 8 May 2023.