Elachista, Sruoga & Sinev & Rocienė, 2017

Sruoga, Virginijus, Sinev, Sergey Yu. & Rocienė, Agnė, 2017, The Elachistidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of Caucasus, with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4338 (2), pp. 241-262 : 248

Elachista sp. near cretula Kaila, 2011

( FIGS 17–26 )

Material examined. 1♂, KRASNODARSKII KRAI, ANAPA, OKR . [ESNOSTI] (ENVIRONS) SU-PSEKH, G.[ ORA] (MOUNTAIN) LYSAYA, 03.V.1998, V. SHCHUROV LEG. GEN. PREP . VS441 (ZIN).

Remarks. THE SINGLE SPECIMEN COLLECTED IN CAUCASUS IS CLOSE TO Elachista cretula (fOR ILLUSTRATIONS REfER TO KAILA 2011C: fIGS 10, 19, 20), HOWEVER, THE VALVA IS SOMEWHAT BROADER, SHORTER AND BENT, AND THE SPINOSE KNOB Of GNATHOS APPEARS SHORTER AND WIDER. IT MAY REPRESENT AN UNDESCRIBED SPECIES, BUT THE MATERIAL AVAILABLE IS TOO LIMITED fOR A SAfE IDENTIfICATION.

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 26. Elachista sp. near cretula. 17, adult male. Scale bar 1 mm; 18, head, latero-frontal view; 19, tegumen and uncus; 20, gnathos; 21, juxta; 22, digitate process; 23, vinculum; 24, left valva; 25, right valva; 26, phallus. Gen. prep. VS 4 41. Scale bar 0.1 mm.