Jonas Rimantas Stonis

Jonas Rimantas Stonis (1958–), Lithuanian entomologist. Formerly Rimantas Puplesis.

Department of Biology and Institute for Scientific Research, Faculty of Science and Technology, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Studentų St. 39, Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania
Pedagogical University, Studentu 39, Vilnius, Lithuania

Taxon names authored

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353 taxon names authored by Jonas Rimantas Stonis

Publications

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1984

Puplesis, R. 1984. New species of nepticulids (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae) from southern Primorye. Entomological Review 1: 96-110. (Original Russian Text in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 1984, 63(1): 111-125). Reference page.
Puplesis, R. 1984a. Contribution to the classification of the Palearctic Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera). Entomological Review 3: 149-164. (Original Russian Text in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 1984, 63(3): 582-597). Reference page.

1990

Puplesis, R. 1990. The genus Acalyptris Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae) in the USSR: distribution and taxonomy. Nota Lepidopterologica 13(1): 62–88. BHL Reference page.

1995

Puplesis, R. & Diškus, A. 1995. Acalyptris argyraspis sp. n., a remarkable species from Tadzhikistan (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Phegea 23(1): 51–54. full article (PDF). Reference page.

1996

Puplesis, R. & Diškus, A. 1996. First record of the genus Etainia Beirne from Central Asia with descriptions of two new species and some provisional notes on the world fauna (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Phegea 24(1): 41-48. reference page

2000

Puplesis, R. & Robinson, G.S. 2000. A review of the Central and South American Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) with special reference to Belize. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Entomology series 69(1): 1–114. BHL Reference page.

2002

Puplesis, R., Diškus, A. & Robinson, G.S. 2002. New Neotropical Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from the western Amazonian rainforest and the Andes of Ecuador. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology series 71(1): 19–58. DOI: 10.1017/S0968045402000020 BHL Reference page.
Puplesis, R., Diškus, A., Robinson, G.S. & Onore, G. 2002. New Neotropical Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from the western Amazonian rainforest and the Andes of Ecuador. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology series 71(1): 59–76. BHL Reference page.

2003

Puplesis, R. & Diškus, A. 2003. The Nepticuloidea & Tischerioidea (Lepidoptera) - a global view, with strategic regional revisions. Lutute, Kaunas. Reference page.
Sruoga, V. & Puplesis, R. 2003. A remarkable new species of Stephensia Stainton (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) from Belize rainforest (Central America). Zoological Science 20(10): 1273–1277. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.20.1273. Reference page.

2005

Puplesis, R. & Diškus, A. 2005. Checklist of African Tischeriidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) with a Redescription of the Formerly Neglected Tischeria urticicolella from Equatorial Africa. Zoological Science 22(9): 1051–1055. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.22.1051. Reference page.

2007

Davis, D.R. & Stonis, J.R. 2007. A revision of the new world plant-mining moths of the family Opostegidae (Lepidoptera:Nepticuloidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 625: 1–212. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.625. . Reference page. .
Lees, D.C. & Stonis, J.R. 2007. The first record of Tischeriidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from Madagascar, with description of Coptotriche alavelona sp. n. and an updated distributional checklist of Afrotropical Tischeriidae. Zootaxa 1645: 35–45. Abstract & excerpt. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Diškus, A. 2007. Description of Tischeria gouaniae sp. n. from the Tropical Forest of Belizean Exotic New Addition to the American Fauna of Tischeria (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae). Zoological Science 24(12): 1286–1291. Reference page.

2008

Stonis, J.R. & Diškus, A. 2008. Checklist of American Coptotriche (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) with Descriptions of Two New Species from the Tropical Forest of Belize (Central America). Zoological Science 25(1): 99-106. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.25.99. . Reference page.

2011

Navickaité, A., Diškus, A., Stonis, J.R. & Dobrynina, V. 2011. Taxonomic catalogue of the world Nepticuloidea and Tischerioidea (Lepidoptera) described by members of the Biosystematics Research Group (Lithuania) up to 2009. Acta Zoologica Lituanica 21(2): 113–132. Reference page.
Navickaité, A., Diškus, A. & Stonis, J.R. 2011. Review of Nepticulidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) occurring in the Curonian Spit (Baltic Coast of Lithuania). Acta Zoologica Lituanica 21(3): 221–231. Reference page.

2013

Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Navickaité, A. & Rociené, A. 2013. Description of new species of oak leaf-miners (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae), with notes on the species groups of Stigmella Schrank associated with Quercus as a host-plant. Zootaxa 3737(3): 201–222. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.3.1 Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A. & Noreika, R. 2013a. New Nepticulidae species (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from the Yucatán Peninsula (SE Mexico). Zootaxa 3609(2): 223–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.2.8 reference page
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Noreika, R. & Schuster, J. 2013b. Four new leaf-mining Acalyptris species from Guatemala and Belize, with new data on bionomics of Stigmella pruinosa (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Zootaxa 3737(2): 101–117. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.2.1 Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Schuster, J.C. 2013c. First discovery of Quercus feeding Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) in Central America. Zootaxa 3737(1): 1–23. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.1.1 Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A. & Sruoga, V. 2013. An annotated list of the Opostegidae of the Himalaya, with a description of Pseudopostega brevicaudata sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea). Zootaxa 3609(2): 182–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.2.4 Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Rocienė, A. 2013. Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of East Asia (1). Re-examination of the male genitalia of types deposited at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zootaxa 3652(1): 1–59. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.1.1 Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Rocienė, A. 2013. Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of East Asia (2). Study of a collection sample deposited at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with descriptions of new species and a checklist. Zootaxa 3652(1): 75–116. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.1.3 Reference page.

2014

Navickaité, A., Diškus, A. & Stonis, J.R. 2014. An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe. Zootaxa 3847(2): 151–202. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.2.1 Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A. & Davis, D.R. 2014. Ten new species from the Patagonian Andes (Argentina and Chile), mostly belonging to a newly designated Stigmella purpurimaculae group (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Zootaxa 3887(3): 321–353. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.3.3 Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Rocienė, A. 2014. Additions to the Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of East Asia, with descriptions of three new species from Primorskiy Kray. Zootaxa 3846(2): 204–220. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.2.2 reference page
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Rociené, A., Sruoga, V., Davis, D.R. 2014. New and little known Coptotriche and Tischeria species (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) from Primorskiy Kray, Russian Far East. Zootaxa 3884(2): 141–155. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.3 Reference page.

2015

Diškus, A. & Stonis, J.R. 2015. Astrotischeria neotropicana sp. nov.—a leaf-miner on Sida, Malvaceae, currently with the broadest distribution range in the Neotropics (Lepidoptera, Tischeriidae). Zootaxa 4039(3): 456–466. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.3.5. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Remeikis, A. & Stonis, J.R. 2015. First discovery of Quercus-feeding Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) in South America, with description of new species and designation of the S. nigriverticella complex in the S. saginella group. Zootaxa 4057(3): 409–429. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.3.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A. & Remeikis, A. 2015. The first description of the leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) feeding on the South American plant genus Liabum, Asteraceae. Zootaxa 4040(5): 576–582. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Remeikis, A. 2015. The first records on the genus Acalyptris from the Caribbean (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Zootaxa 4057(1): 79–90. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.1.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

2016

Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Torres, N.C. 2016. First description of leaf-mining Nepticulidae and Tischeriidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) feeding on the Chilean endemic plant genus Podanthus Lag. (Asteraceae). Zootaxa 4061(2): 119–130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.2.2. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Gerulaitis, V. & Karsholt, O. 2016b. Leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from record high altitudes: documenting an entire new fauna in the Andean páramo and puna. Zootaxa 4181(1): 1–94. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4181.1.1. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Davis, D.R., Solis, M.A. & Torres, N.C. 2016a. The first record of Baccharis L. (Asteraceae) as a host-plant genus for Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera), with description of new Stigmella species from South America. Zootaxa 4136(1): 101–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.1.4. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Remeikis, A. 2016. Southern Andean Stigmella sinuosa complex (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae): unraveling problematic taxonomy with a pictorial key of adults? Zootaxa 4136(2): 309–322. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.3. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A. & Gerulaitis, V. 2016c. The Ando-Patagonian Stigmella magnispinella group (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae) with description of new species from Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. Zootaxa 4200(4): 561–579. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.4.7. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Karsholt, O. 2016. Do leaf-mining Nepticulidae occur in the natural but so threatened Andean Polylepis forests?. Biologija 62(2): 83–97. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Torres, N.C. 2016e. Rosaceae-feeding Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of South America: some taxonomic and trophic diversity revealed. Biologija 62(4): 250–267. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v62i4.3412. . Reference page.

2017

Stonis & Remeikis 2017. Anacardiaceae-feeding Nepticulidae in the Neotropics: description of Stigmella lilliputica sp. nov. from Argentina, a pest on Chilean peppertree Schinus polygama. Biologija 63(3): 230–237. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v63i3.3577. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Karsholt, O. & Torres, N.C. 2017. Illustrated review of the leaf-mining Nepticulidae of the central Andes (Peru and Bolivia). Zootaxa 4257(1): 1–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4257.1.1. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A. & Megoran, N. 2017. New species of leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from the Neotropical and Ando-Patagonian regions, with new data on host plants. Zootaxa 4272(1): 1–39. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.1.1. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A., Forero, D. & Torres, N.C. 2017. A report on Lamiaceae-feeding Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from South America. Zootaxa 4338(1): 128–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.6. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A. & Solis, M.A. 2017. The American species of the genus Glaucolepis Braun, 1917 (Neotrifurcula van Nieukerken, syn. nov.) (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Zootaxa 4338(3): 489–506. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.5. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Stonis, J. R., Diškus, A., Paulavičiūtė, B. & Monro, A.K. 2017, Urticaceae-feeders from the family Tischeriidae: descriptions of two new species and new genus Paratischeria gen. nov. Biologija, 63(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v63i1.3470. . Reference page.
Stonis, J. R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Monro, A.K. 2017e. The mystery of thetiny Urticaceae-feeders: documentation of the first leaf-mining Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) species from equatorial America associated with Phenax, Boehmeria and Pilea. Biologija, 63(2): 105–125. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v63i2.3523. . Reference page.
Xu, J-S., Dai, X-H., Liu, P., Bai, H-Y., Diškus, A. & Stonis, J.R. 2017. First report on Paratischeria from Asia (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae). Zootaxa 4350(2): 331–344. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.8. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

2018

Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A. Carvalho Filho, F. & Lewis, O.T. 2018. American Asteraceae-feeding Astrotischeria species with a highly modified, three-lobed valva in the male genitalia (Lepidoptera, Tischeriidae). Zootaxa 4469(1): 001–069. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4469.1.1. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Solis, M.A. 2018a. A Gondwanan concept of Simplimorpha Scoble (sensu lato): a step toward clarity in the generic diagnostics of global Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 4521(2): 151–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.1. Reference page.
Stonis, Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Solis, M.A. 2018. The American Brachinepticula gen. nov. and Manoneura Davis (Nepticulidae): a new generic concept based on a reinforced cathrema in the phallus. Biologija 64(2): 99-128. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v64i2.3735. Reference page.
Stonis & Diškus, A. 2018. Acalyptris amazonensis sp. nov.: documentation of another leaf-mining species supplementing the unique but disputable A. latipennata group (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). Biologija 64(3): 191-202. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v64i3.3824. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Remeikis, A. 2018. Odd species of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from the American rainforest and southern Andes. Zootaxa 4392(3): 458–468. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.2. Reference page.
Xu, H.S., Dai, X.H., Liao, C.Q., Diškus, A. & Stonis, J.R. 2018. Discovery of Ulmaceae-feeding Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera, Tischerioidea), Tischeria ulmella sp. nov., and the first report of the Quercus-feeding T. naraensis Sato in China Zootaxa 4399(3): 361–370. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.3.6. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

2019

Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Katinas, L., Torres, N.C., Schuster, J.C. & Puplesyte-Chambers, J. 2019 Diagnostics of new species of Neotropical Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera), with the first record of Coptotriche Walshingham from South America. Zootaxa 4691(1): 001–032. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.1.1. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A. & Vargas, S.A. 2019. Discovery of leaf-mining Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera) in Colombia and their distribution in the Neotropics. Zootaxa 4638(2): 219–236. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.2.3. Reference page. .
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A. & Vargas, S.A. 2019. Colombian Nepticuloidea and Tischerioidea: a small step out of obscurity. Biologija 65(2): 67-79. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v65i2.4023. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A., Orlovskytė, S., Vargas, S.A. & Solis, M.A. 2019. A new leafmining pest of guava: Hesperolyra guajavifoliae sp. nov., with comments on the diagnostics of the endemic Neotropical genus Hesperolyra van Nieukerken (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae). ZooKeys, 900: 87–110. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.900.46332 Reference page.
Stonis, J. R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Nishida, K. 2019. Discovery of a new species of Ozadelpha van Nieukerken sheds more light on the diagnostics of this controversial genus of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera). Biologija, 65(4): 223-235. DOI: 10.6001/biologija.v65i4.4116. . Reference page.

2020

Klasiński, A., Stonis, J.R. & Remeikis, A. 2020. Diagnostics based on the juxta morphology reveals a new species of Tischeria Zeller (Lepidoptera, Tischeriidae) from the Caucasus. Biologija 66(1): 10-20. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A. & Lewis, O.T. 2020. Exceptional diversity of Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera) from a single tropical forest site in Belize, Central America. European Journal of Taxonomy 723: 33–76. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.723.1143. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Solis, M.A. & Katinas, L. 2020. Exotic-looking Neotropical Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera) and their host plants. ZooKeys, 970: 117–158. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.970.54801. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Vargas, S.A. & Solis, M.A. 2020. Diagnostics and updated catalogue of Acalyptris Meyrick, the second largest genus of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) in the Americas. Zootaxa 4748(2): 201–247. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.1 pdf Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A. & Navickaité, A. 2020. Documenting new and little known leaf-mining Nepticulidae from middle and southwestern areas of the Asian continent. Zootaxa 4881(3): 401–452. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.1. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A., Vargas, S.A. & Solis, M.A. 2020. Opostegidae (Lepidoptera) of the Americas: Updated Catalog, Diagnostics, and New Species Descriptions. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122(4): 929-972. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R. & Solis, M.A. 2020. Dishkeya gen. nov., a New World endemic genus of leaf-mining Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera), transferred from Tischeria Zeller. Biologija 66(3): 123-135. Reference page.

2021

Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Fernández-Alonso, J.L., Remeikis, A. & Solis, M.A. 2021. Zootaxa 4926(3): 363–383. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.3.3. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A., Baryshnikova, S.V. & Solis, M.A. 2021. Zootaxa 4942(2): 269–289. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.2.8. . Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A., Remeikis, A., Fernández-Alonso, J.L., Baryshnikova, S.V. & Solis, M.A. 2021. Zootaxa 5047(3): 300–320. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.3.4. . Reference page.

2022

Stonis, J.R., Diškus, A. & Mey, W. 2022. Four Tischeriidae species in Colombia, including a new Astrotischeria species: is it not too little for a megadiverse country?. Biologija 68(4): 189–199. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A. & Diškus, A. 2022. Neotropical Nepticulidae. Taxonomic diversity and trophic relationships of leaf-mining Nepticuloidea & Tischerioidea. The Nature Research Centre, Vilnius. DOI: 10.35513/2022. Reference page.

2023

Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Dobrynina, V. & Mey, W. 2023. Collecting in the Northern Andean Páramo revealed purple iridescent pygmy moths of the little known Andean endemic Brachinepticula (Nepticulidae). Zootaxa 5227(3): 328–340. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5227.3.2. . Reference page.