Antispila oinophylla

Antispila oinophylla
Male
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Heliozelidae
Genus:	Antispila
Species:	A. oinophylla
Binomial name
Antispila oinophylla Van Nieukerken & Wagner, 2012

Antispila oinophylla is a species of moth of the Heliozelidae family. It is found in North America, including Ontario, Quebec, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Tennessee and Vermont. Records under Antispila ampelopsifoliella from Maine, Missouri and Ohio may also partly refer to this species. In Europe, it is introduced into northern Italy.^[1]

The wingspan is 5.5–6.2 millimetres (0.22–0.24 in).

In North America, larvae have been found feeding on Vitis aestivalis (var. aestivalis and var. bicolor), Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia and Vitis vulpina. In Italy, mines were found on various Vitis vinifera cultivars, hybrids and French-American grapes. A preference for some grape cultivars (e.g. Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Muscat) is suggested from observations carried out in mixed cultivar vineyards. Active mines were also found on Parthenocissus quinquefolia. The larvae mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a rather straight or slightly contorted gallery towards the vein, usually forming a right angle and often following the vein for a short distance. It then again turns away from the vein where it expands into a blotch. The gallery portion, of variable length, is usually later incorporated into the blotch mine. The frass is linear, usually occupies the complete mine width, but occasionally is deposited in a thin line. In the blotch much of the blackish-brown frass is deposited close to the origin in semicircular concentric frass lines.

Etymology

The epithet oinophylla is derived from the Greek oinos (meaning wine) and phyllon or phylla (meaning leaf) and refers to the larvae that live in the leaves of the grapevine from which wine is made.

Male genitalia

Male genitalia of the moth Antispila oinophylla

9: Complete genitalia with separate phallus in ventral view
10–12: Phallus and juxta in ventro-lateral view
13–14: Complex of tegumen, uncus, valvae and transtilla
15: Detail of valval tips and pectinifers
16: Detail of spines near phallotrema.

Gallery

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  Living male

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  Living male

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  21, 23, 24: Italy, Borgo Valsusana on Vitis vinifera, 22 USA: Vermont on Vitis riparia

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  25 USA: Tennessee on Vitis vulpina, 26, 28 USA: Georgia on Vitis aestivalis var. aestivalis, 27 USA: Vermont on Vitis riparia

References