Elachista scirpi Stainton, 1887

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 119

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4921123

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scientific name

Elachista scirpi Stainton, 1887
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Elachista scirpi Stainton, 1887 View in CoL

Elachista scirpi Stainton, 1887a: 253 View in CoL . Type locality: U.K., Wales, Pembroke ( Stainton 1887a: 254) . Type series not stated, in NHMUK .

Biselachista margareteae Traugott-Olsen, 1994: 333 . Type locality: Italy, Toscana, Maremma ( Traugott-Olsen 1994: 334). Holotype ♂, in Aren. Synonymized by Huemer & Kaila (2002): 218.

Biselachista scirpi: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 264) .

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

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy (continent, Sicily), Norway, Portugal, Russia (European part), Sweden, U.K. ( England, Wales).

Larval host plant(s): Scirpus maritimus L., ( Cyperaceae ), Juncus gerardii Loiseleur-Deslongchamps , J. compressus Jacq. (Juncaceae) ( Stainton 1887b; Fletcher 1887; Meyrick 1928).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Bland (1996), Parenti & Pizzolato (2015b).

Bland, K. P. (1996) Elachistidae. In: Emmet, A. M. (Ed.), The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 3. Ypomomeutidae-Elachistidae. Harley Books, Essex, pp. 339 - 410

Fletcher, W. H. B. (1887) On the life-history of Elachista scirpi. Entomologist's monthly Magazine, 23, 254 - 255.

Huemer, P. & Kaila, L. (2002) Elachista (Elachista) morandinii sp. n., a new species from Central Europe (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae). Gortania, 24, 211 - 220.

Meyrick, E. (1928) A revised handbook of British Lepidoptera. Watkins & Doncaster, London, 924 pp.

Parenti, U. & Pizzolato, F. (2015 b) Revison of European Elachistidae. The genus Biselachista Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen, 1977, stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologia, 43, 537 - 575.

Stainton, H. T. (1887 a) Description of a new species of Elachista allied to rhyncosporella, Stn. Entomologist's monthly Magazine, 23, 253 - 254.

Stainton, H. T. (1887 b) On the life history of Elachista scirpi. Entomologist's monthly Magazine, 23, 254 - 255.

Traugott-Olsen, E. & Nielsen, E. S. (1977) The Elachistidae (Lepidoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Klampenborg, 6, 1 - 299.

Traugott-Olsen, E. (1994) Identity of Biselachista freyi (Staudinger, 1870) and Biselachista occidentalis (Frey, 1882), description of five new species (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologia, 22, 323 - 348.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

Genus

Elachista