Elachista staintonella Chambers, 1878

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 125

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

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scientific name

Elachista staintonella Chambers, 1878
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Elachista staintonella Chambers, 1878

Elachista staintonella Chambers, 1878b: 96 . Type locality: U.S.A., Texas ( Chambers 1878b: 96) (sex not stated); according to Miller & Hodges (1990: 56) a syntype ♂ in MCZ. Kaila (1999b: 112) considers the specimen to be the holotype .

Subgenus: Elachista ; praelineata species group.

Distribution: Nearctic. U.S.A. (Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming).

Larval host plant(s): unknown.

Figs.: Kaila (1999b).

Remarks: Kaila (1999b: 111, 112) erroneously placed E. staintonella in the Elachista gleichenella species group.

Chambers, V. T. (1878 b) Descriptions of new Tineina from Texas, and others from more northern localities. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 4, 79 - 106.

Kaila, L. (1999 b) A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Elachista s. l. III. The bifasciella, praelineata, saccharella and freyerella groups (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae). Acta Zoologica Fennica, 211, 1 - 235.

Miller, S. E. & Hodges, R. W. (1990) Primary types of Microlepidoptera in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (with a discursion on V. T. Chambers' work). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 152 (2), 45 - 87.

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Elachistidae

Genus

Elachista