Elachista atricomella Stainton, 1849

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 25-26

Elachista atricomella Stainton, 1849

Elachista atricomella Stainton, 1849: 25 . Type locality: [ U.K.]. Type material: not stated ( Stainton 1849: 25).

Elachista alienella Stainton, 1851: 9 . Type locality: England, Lewisham ( Stainton 1851: 9). Holotype ♀, in NHMUK. Synonymized by Stainton (1854: 253).

Elachista extensella Stainton, 1851: 26 . Type locality: Austria. Lectotype ♂ designated by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 73), in NHMUK. Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 72).

Elachista zetterstedtii Wallengren, 1852: 219 . Type locality: Sweden, Scania [Skåne], Trolle-Ljungby ( Wallengren 1852: 219). Lectotype in ZMUL, designated by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 73). Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 72).

Elachista holdenella Stainton, 1854: 252 . Type locality: England, Surrey, Headley. Holotype ♀, in Manchester Museum, England. See Remarks.

Elachista helvetica Frey, 1856: 289 . Type locality: Switzerland, Zürich region ( Frey 1856: 290). Holotype ♀, in NHMUK. Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen (1974: 259).

Elachista longipennis Frey, 1885: 102 . Type locality: Switzerland, Wallis ( Frey 1885: 102). Lectotype ♂ designated by Bradley, published by Parenti (1977: 21), in NHMUK. Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 72).

Poeciloptilia atricomella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 300, 307).

Poeciloptilia holdenella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 306) .

‡ Elachista helvetia ; misspelling ( Frey 1859: 207).

‡ Elachista holdenela ; misspelling ( Traugott-Olsen 1974: 259).

Subgenus: Elachista ; bifasciella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Caucasus), Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. ( England, Scotland, Wales), Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Dactylis glomerata L., Melica sp., Milium sp. (all Poaceae ) ( Stainton 1858a,b; E.M. Hering 1957; Wörz 1957).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996).

Remarks: Bradley (1971: 25) designated a lectotype of E. holdenella from two specimens in Stainton’s collection in NHMUK, collected from Surrey. According to Traugott-Olsen (1974: 259), the original description of E. holdenella Stainton (1854: 252) was not based on either of these specimens, so Bradley’s lectotype designation is invalid. The species description, however, was based on only one specimen, so it is the holotype. Pelham-Clinton (1986) interpreted the type locality from the original label. All these specimens are conspecific ( Traugott-Olsen 1974: 259). Records from Crimea reported by Budashkin & Sinev (1991) are referable to E. vulturna Kaila, 2015 .