Elachista asiatica (Sinev, 1998)

Hemiprosopa albella ssp. asiatica Sinev, 1998: 1425 . Type locality: Russia, Transbaikal, Dahur steps, E shore of Lake Barun-Torey (Sinev 1998: 1425). Holotype ♂, in ZISP.

Elachista asiatica (Sinev, 1998), comb. nov., stat. nov.

Subgenus: Hemiprosopa .

Distribution: Palearctic. Russia (Buryatia, Transbaikalia).

Figs.: Sinev (1998).

Remarks: Kaila (1999a) treated Hemiprosopa as a subgenus of Elachista . Because E. (Hemiprosopa) albella (Chambers, 1877) is a junior secondary homonym of Elachista albella (Müller, 1776), Kaila (1999a) suggested the replacement name dasycara for it. Hemiprosopa asiatica Sinev was described as a Palearctic subspecies of the Nearctic Hemiprosopa albella (Chambers, 1877); this name would thus have priority of dasycara Kaila. Following Pohl et al. (2018) the Palearctic asiatica and Nearctic dasycara taxa are here considered distinct, and E. asiatica Sinev is raised to species rank, stat. nov.