Elachista iriphaea (Meyrick, 1932)

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 77

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scientific name

Elachista iriphaea (Meyrick, 1932)
status

 

Elachista iriphaea (Meyrick, 1932) View in CoL

Labdia iriphaea Meyrick, 1932b: 213 View in CoL . Type locality: Uganda, Ruwenzori ( Meyrick 1932b: 213). Holotype ♂, in NHMUK.

Elachista iriphaea: Sinev (2002: 164) View in CoL .

Elachista oritropha Bradley, 1965b: 106 View in CoL . Type locality: Uganda, Ruwenzori Range, Nyamaleju ( Bradley 1965b: 106). Holotype ♂, in NHMUK. Syn. nov.

Subgenus: Elachista View in CoL ; bifasciella View in CoL species group.

Distribution: Afrotropical. Uganda.

Larval host plant(s): unknown.

Figs.: Bradley (1965b).

Remarks: Examination of the holotypes have revealed no differences between that of holotype of Labdia iriphaea Meyrick, 1932 , originally assigned to Cosmopterigidae , and Elachista oritropha Bradley, 1965 , both from the same locality. E. oritropha Bradley, 1965 is considered a subjective junior synonym of E. iriphaea ( Meyrick, 1932b) , syn nov.

Bradley, J. D. (1965 b) Ruwenzori expedition 1952. Vol II. No 12. Microlepidoptera. British Museum. (Natural History), London, 69 pp. [pp. 81 - 148 + 215]

Meyrick, E. (1932 b) Exotic Microlepidoptera IV. Taylor and Francis, London, 7 pp. [pp. 213 - 219]

Sinev, S. Yu. (2002) World Catalogue of cosmopterigid moths (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae). Russian Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Zoological institute, St. Petersburg, 293, 1 - 184.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

Genus

Elachista