Elachista brachyelytrifoliella Clemens, 1864

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 31

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

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scientific name

Elachista brachyelytrifoliella Clemens, 1864
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Elachista brachyelytrifoliella Clemens, 1864 View in CoL

Elachista brachyelytrifoliella Clemens, 1864: 425 View in CoL . Type locality: U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Easton ( Clemens 1864: 426). Lectotype ♀, in ANSP, designated by Braun (1948: 98).

Elachista brachyelythrifoliella ; misspelling ( Kaila 1999a: 167).

Dicranoctetes brachyelytrifoliella: Braun (1948: 98) View in CoL .

Subgenus: Elachista View in CoL ; saccharella species group.

Distribution: Nearctic. U.S.A. (Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia).

Larval host plant(s): Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) Beauv. (Poaceae) ( Braun 1948: 99).

Figs.: Kaila (1999b).

Remarks: Other host plants attributed to E. brachyelytrifoliella in the literature apply to related species ( Kaila 1999b).

Braun, A. F. (1948) Elachistidae of North America (Microlepidoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, 13, 1 - 110, 26 pls.

Clemens, J. B. (1864) North-American Micro-Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1864, 415 - 430.

Kaila, L. (1999 a) Phylogeny and classification of the Elachistidae s. s. (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Systematic Entomology, 24, 139 - 169. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 3113.1999.00069. x

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

Genus

Elachista