Elachista metella Kaila, 2002

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 92-93

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4632.1.1

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scientific name

Elachista metella Kaila, 2002
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Elachista metella Kaila, 2002 View in CoL

Elachista metella Kaila, 2002: 182 View in CoL . Type locality: Croatia, Krk , Punat (Kaila 2002: 182). Holotype ♂, in ZMUC.

Svenssonia metella: Parenti (2009: 30) .

Elachista cingillella auct ., nec Herrich-Schäffer, partim.

Subgenus: Aphelosetia ; argentella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland.

Larval host plant(s): Brachypodium pinnatum (Poaceae) . Due to taxonomic confusion with Elachista cingillella the host plant records are uncertain. Parenti & Varalda (1994) list the following host plants for E. cingillella which may partly or entirely be attributable to E. metella : Bromus erectus Hudson , Dicanthium ischaemum (L.) Roberty, Milium effusum L. ( Poaceae ).

Figs.: Kaila & Junnilainen (2002), Parenti (2009).

Kaila, L. & Junnilainen, J. (2002) Taxonomy and identification of Elachista cingillella (H. - S.) and its close relatives (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae), with descriptions of two new species. Entomologica Fennica, 13, 167 - 188.

Parenti, U. & Varalda, P. G. (1994) Gli Elachistidi (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae) e loro piante ospiti. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 12, 73 - 136.

Parenti, U. (2009) Revision of European Elachistidae (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae). The genus Svenssonia, gen. n. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 26, 19 - 71.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

Genus

Elachista