Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953

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Higher taxa:	Gracillariidae (family)/  Lithocolletinae (subfamily)/  Porphyrosela (genus)/
Status:	Accepted
Authorship:	Clarke, 1953
Citation:	Porphyrosela minuta, new species
Original genus:	Porphyrosela
Publication:	Clarke, J. F. G. 1953a. A new Porphyrosela from Argentina (Gracillariidae; Lepidoptera).
Journal:	Acta Zoologica Lilloana
Volume:	13
Issue:
Pagination:	69–70

Porphyrosela minuta (1)

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Scientific name	TypeStatus	Gender	Museum	Description	Country	Locality	Publication	URL
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Holotype	♂	USNM	Holotype ♂, nr. 61476, USNM	Argentina	Argentina, Buenos Aires, Tigre, i.1951.
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Paratype	♀	USNM	Paratypes 4♀, USNM.	Argentina	Argentina, Buenos Aires, Tigre, i.1951.

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DNA voucher(s)
LNOUD830-12  LNOUD806-12  GMGSX014-13  GMRDM044-18  MNAM1114-16  MNAM1115-16

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GenBank Accession Number	Publication
Genbank KF808156	Lees, D. C., Kawahara, A. Y., Rougerie, R., Ohshima, I., Kawakita, A., Bouteleux, O. & Lopez-Vaamonde, C. 2014. DNA barcoding reveals a largely unknown fauna of Gracillariidae leaf-mining moths in the Neotropics page Suppl. Table 2

Scientific name	Country	Province	Publication	URL
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Argentina		Bourquin, F. 1951. Cuatro notas sobre metamorfosis de Microlepidópteros. I. "Aristotelia perplexa" Clarke II. "Parastega hemisigna" Clarke III. "Porphyrosella sp." IV." Darlia praetexta" Clarke. page 513
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	United States, US	Louisiana	Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 21
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	United States, US	Oklahoma	Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 21
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	United States, US	North Carolina	Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 21
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	United States, US	Maryland	Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 21
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	United States, US	California	Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 22
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	United States, US	Tennessee	page BOLD (BIOUG04722-D09)
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Uruguay		Biezanko, C. M., Ruffinelli, A. & Link, D. 1978. Catalogue of Lepidoptera of the Republic of Uruguay. page 56

Plant note:

Upper side of the leaves (Bentancourt & Scatoni 2007: 517). The mature mines of P. minuta are easily disntinguished by the wrinkled upper epidermis (Eiseman et al. 2017: 22).

Scientific name	Plant	Plant Family	Country	Publication	URL
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Trifolium repens	Fabaceae	Uruguay	Bentancourt, C. M. & Scatoni, I. B. 2007. Morphology and biology of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke 1953 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae, Lithocolletinae) in Uruguay. page 514
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Trifolium sp.	Fabaceae	Argentina	Bourquin, F. 1951. Cuatro notas sobre metamorfosis de Microlepidópteros. I. "Aristotelia perplexa" Clarke II. "Parastega hemisigna" Clarke III. "Porphyrosella sp." IV." Darlia praetexta" Clarke. page 513

Scientific name	Parasitoid	Parasitoid Family	Country	Publication	URL
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Hemiptarsenus sp.	Eulophidae		Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 22
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Pnigalio coloni	Eulophidae		Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 22
Porphyrosela minuta Clarke, 1953	Sympiesis sericeicornis	Eulophidae		Eiseman, C. S., Feldman, T. S., LoPresti, E. & Palmer, M. W. 2017a. First North American records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with notes on its native congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens). page 22

Porphyrosela minuta (1)

Porphyrosela minuta (2)

Porphyrosela minuta (3)

Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination

Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination