Elachista saccharella ( Busck, 1934 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.294129 |
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Elachista saccharella ( Busck, 1934 ) |
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Elachista saccharella ( Busck, 1934) View in CoL
( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 4 View FIGURES 2 – 4 , 45–50 View FIGURES 45 – 46 View FIGURES 47 – 50 )
Donacivola saccharella Busck, 1934: 169 View in CoL .
Dicranoctetes saccharella (Busck) View in CoL ; Hall 1983: 521; 1988: 144. Elachista saccharella (Busck) View in CoL ; Kaila 1999a: 169; 1999b: 93; White et al. 2007: 792.
Material examined: 2ɗ, 5Ψ, Ecuador, Tungurahua Province, 1 km E Banos, Rio Negro, mines 11.ii.2007, ex. p. 01–08.iii.2007, V. Sruoga leg. In VPU.
For external characters and genitalia refer to Kaila 1999b: 93; figs. 151, 152, 278, 279, 362 and White et al. 2007: 792; fig. 1a.
Distribution. Cuba ( Busck 1934), USA: Florida ( Hall 1983) and Louisiana ( White et al. 2007), and Ecuador (new record). According to Heppner (2002) this species is likely to also occur in Mexico.
Remarks. Previously the only known host plant of Elachista saccharella was sugarcane ( Saccharum ) ( Busck 1934; White et al. 2007). We found larvae mining the leaves of unidentified Poaceae grasses (most probably of the genus Muhlenbergia ( Figs. 45, 46 View FIGURES 45 – 46 ) growing on a roadside at an altitude of about 1800 m ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 2 – 4 ). The larva makes a full-depth, straight, linear mine, which extends towards the leaf tip, about 10–13 cm long. It pupates in a flimsy cocoon ( Figs. 47, 48 View FIGURES 47 – 50 ) on the underside of a leaf. The cocoon varies in density and orientation of silk filaments covering the pupa. The pupa is highly modified, with lateral ridges produced into short or long curved acute spines ( Figs. 49, 50 View FIGURES 47 – 50 ).
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Elachista saccharella ( Busck, 1934 )
Sruoga, Virginijus 2010 |
Dicranoctetes saccharella
White 2007: 792 |
Kaila 1999: 169 |
Hall 1983: 521 |
Donacivola saccharella
Busck 1934: 169 |