Elachista albicapitella Engel, 1907

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 15-16

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

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scientific name

Elachista albicapitella Engel, 1907
status

 

Elachista albicapitella Engel, 1907 View in CoL

Elachista albicapitella Engel, 1907: 277 View in CoL . Type locality: U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh ( Engel 1907: 277). Holotype, gender not stated in original description. According to Braun (1948: 66) ♂, in USNM.

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

Distribution: Nearctic. Canada (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec), U.S.A. (Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania).

Larval host plant(s): Poa sylvestris A. Gray ( Poaceae ) ( Braun 1920: 170).

Figs.: Kaila (1999b).

Braun, A. F. (1920) Notes on Elachista with descriptions of new species (Microlepidoptera). Ohio Journal of Science, 20, 167 - 172.

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

Engel, H. (1907) New Micro-Lepidoptera. Entomological News, 18, 276 - 279.

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