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2. Biologie
2.1. Nahrung der Raupe
Noch unbekannt! Mey & Rutjan (2016: 149) vermuten, dass Zizyphus oder Rhamnus-Arten genutzt werden könnten.
3. Weitere Informationen
3.1. Taxonomie und Faunistik
2016 wurde eine zweite Catapterix-Art beschrieben, diesmal aus Asien: Catapterix tianshanica Mey & Rutjan, 2016. Hier ist bisher nur ein einzelnes Männchen bekannt.
Mey & Rutjan (2016) hatten gehofft, ihrer Beschreibung noch weitere Exemplare zu Grunde legen zu können - vergeblich! Die lange Vorgeschichte: "Since 2002 Oleksiy Bidzilia from the Zoological Museum in Kiev has been a regular visitor to the Lepidoptera/Trichoptera collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He has always brought and donated Trichoptera material, which he and the second author collected during field trips in Asia. Among a number of pinned microcaddisflies from Kyrgyzstan, a single, tiny micromoth was found, which in its un-spread state indeed resembled a caddisfly from the family Hydroptilidae. Since the individual did not have eye-caps or other external characters that provided a family identification, the abdomen was removed and the genitalia examined. The specimen turned out to be a second species of the hitherto monotypic genus Catapterix. The surprising finding was immediately communicated to lepidopterists, who have since been collecting in Central Asia in the hope of obtaining further material of this interesting, primitive micromoth species. This hope has remained unsatisfied, and after six years of waiting we have decided to publish the description of the species at this time."
3.2. Typenmaterial
Die Art wurde nach einem Einzeltier beschrieben: "Holotype ♂, labeled: “Kyrgyzstan/ Tian-Shan/ prov. Dzhalal-Abad/ distr.:Kotshkor-Ata/ prope pag. Toskool/ fauc. Alash-Saj/alt. 1100M, 16–17.v.2003/E. Rutjan leg. Lum.[at light]“. Genitalia slide Mey 34/16, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin."
(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)
3.3. Literatur
- Erstbeschreibung: Mey, W. & E. Rutjan (2016): Catapterix tianshanica sp. n. – the second species of the genus from the Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Acanthopteroctetidae). — Nota Lepidopterologica, 39(2) 2016: 145–150. DOI 10.3897/nl.39.9882. [zum open-access-Artikel auf pensoft.net]
