State Research Institute Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, Vilnius 08412, Lithuania..
Zootaxa. 2021 Feb 9;4926(3):zootaxa.4926.3.3. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.3.3.
Members of the Lamiaceae, or mint family, are used worldwide for medicinal, culinary and/or magical-religious purposes, as well as in pesticides and as ornamental plants. Very little is known about nepticulids, or pygmy moths, as leaf miners of Lamiaceae, but they may be an important component of South American diversity and potential pests of economically-important species of the mint family. In this paper, four new species of leaf-mining Nepticulidae are described from the equatorial Andes of Ecuador: S. mentholica Diškus Stonis, sp. nov., Stigmella aromatica Diškus Stonis, sp. nov., S. odora Diškus Stonis, sp. nov., feeding on Minthostachys mollis (Benth.) Griseb., and S. tomentosella Diškus Stonis, sp. nov., feeding on Clinopodium tomentosum (Kunth) Govaerts. It is hypothesized that host-plant distribution ranges can provide clues to potential distribution ranges of these newly discovered, trophically specialized leaf miners. The leaf mines, adults, and the genitalia of the new species are illustrated with photographs.
唇形科或薄荷科的成员在全世界范围内被用于药用、烹饪和/或魔法宗教目的，以及在农药和观赏植物中。关于叶甲科或小蛾，作为唇形科的潜叶虫，人们知之甚少，但它们可能是南美洲多样性的重要组成部分，也是薄荷科经济重要物种的潜在害虫。本文描述了来自厄瓜多尔赤道安第斯山脉的四种新的潜叶甲科叶甲科物种：S. mentholica Diškus Stonis，sp. nov.，Stigmella aromatica Diškus Stonis，sp. nov.，S. odora Diškus Stonis，sp. nov.，以 Minthostachys mollis（Benth.）Griseb.为食，和 S. tomentosella Diškus Stonis，sp. nov.，以 Clinopodium tomentosum（Kunth）Govaerts 为食。据推测，寄主植物的分布范围可以为这些新发现的、营养特化的潜叶虫的潜在分布范围提供线索。新物种的叶片虫、成虫和生殖器都用照片进行了说明。
