© Benaki Phytopathological Institute
Hellenic Plant Protection Journal
11:
59-61, 2018
DOI 10.2478/hppj-2018-0008
1
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricul-
ture, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.
2
Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Su-
leyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.
3
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricul-
ture, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey.
* Corresponding author:
SHORT COMMUNICATION
First record of
Coptotriche angusticollella
(Duponchel, 1843)
(Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) on the oil-bearing rose in Turkey
O. Demirözer
1
, A. Uzun
1
*, S. Erbaș
2
and F. Can
3
Summary
Coptotriche
spp. are known to cause damage on plants of Rosaceae and Fagaceae.
Coptot-
riche angusticollella
(Duponchel, 1843) (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) was recorded for the first time infes-
ting the oil-bearing rose,
Rosa damascena
, at the last half of May 2017 in Isparta, Turkey. It should not be
ignored that
C
.
angusticollella
can be a potential risk posed to the oil-bearing rose crop.
Additional keywords
: pest,
Rosa damascena,
rose oil, trumpet leafminers
blotch mines, on a variety of host plants (Ko-
bayashi
et al.,
2016). Pupation occurs in the
leaf mines and adults are diurnally active.
Main hosts of Tischeriidae belong to the
plant families of Rosaceae, Fagaceae and
Asteraceae (Puplesis and Diškus 2003; Sto-
nis
et al.,
2014). Until this time, 115
Tisch-
eria
species have been reported from dif-
ferent parts of the world.
Coptotriche
spp.
have been associated with fruit and orna-
mental trees:
Coptotriche
spp. on
Carpinus
(Betulaceae) and
Quercus
(Fagaceae) trees
in Japan (Sato, 2011);
C
.
citrinipennella
and
C
.
zelleriella
on
Quercus
sp.;
C
.
castaneaeella
on
Quercus imbricaria
(Anonymous, 2018).
Cop-
totriche angusticollella
has been reported in
Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), Europe (Slove-
nia), Tunisia, Caucasus, Turkmenistan, South
Korea, the Russian Far East. The plant hosts
recorded were
Rosa multiflora
,
R
.
wichurai-
ana
,
R
.
canina
,
Rosa
spp. and other Rosaceae
(Kollar and Hrubik, 2009; Lesar and Govedik,
2010; Kobayashi
et al.,
2016).
Coptotriche an-
gusticolella
had been previously reported
in Turkey but hosts were not fully defined
then and Rosaceae were reported as poten-
tial hosts for this species (Kobayashi
et al.,
2016).
In the present study, infestation of
R
.
damascena
by
C
.
angusticollella
was record-
ed at Ardıçlı Village (37 47’51.0 N, 30 11’22.1
E, 974 m) in the district of Keçiborlu, which
holds a considerable amount of the oil-
Cultivation of the oil-bearing rose,
Rosa
damascena
Mill. (Rosaceae), has an impor-
tant economic position in agricultural pro-
duction of Turkey. Furthermore, approxi-
mately 90% of the world’s oil-bearing rose
cultivation is located in Turkey and 50% of
the world’s rose oil is provided from this
country (Baydar and Kazaz, 2013).
R
osa
damascena
is a host of several in-
sect pests, including three Lepidoptera,
Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla
(Denis and
Schiffermüller) (Pterophoridae),
Archips ro-
sana
(L.) (Noctuidae) and
Notocelia rosaecol-
ana
(Doubleday) (Tortricidae) (Demirözer
et
al.,
2011; Demirözer, 2012). In this study,
Cop-
totriche angusticolella
(Duponchel, 1843)
(Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) was collected for
the first time on leaves of oil-bearing rose in
Isparta, Turkey (Figure 1a) adding a trumpet
leafminer to the lepidopteran pests of the
oil-bearing rose.
Trumpet leafminers (Lepidoptera: Tisch-
eriidae) are known as the smallest moths,
with a wingspan of only 5–11 mm. Their lar-
vae make usually trumpet-shaped mines or
