Elachista elegans Frey, 1859

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 52

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scientific name

Elachista elegans Frey, 1859
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Elachista elegans Frey, 1859 View in CoL

Elachista elegans Frey, 1859: 239 View in CoL . Type locality: Switzerland, Zürich ( Frey 1859: 249). Lectotype ♂ designated by Parenti (1977: 21), in NHMUK.

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

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Liechstenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Larval host plant(s): Bromus sp., Calamagrostis sp., C. arundinacea L., C. epigejos (L.) Roth, Dactylis sp., Milium effusum L., Poa sp. (all Poaceae ) ( Frey 1859; Martini 1912b; Huttunen 1980; Ivinskis et al. 1985).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Kaila et al. (2008).

Remarks: Records from Ukraine (Crimea) by Budashkin & Sinev (1991) are misidentifications of E. herrichii Frey, 1851 (Kaila et al. 2008).

Budashkin, Yu. I. & Sinev, S. Yu. (1991) Grain-mining moths (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae) of the Karadagh Reservation. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 70, 574 - 585.

Frey, H. (1859) Das Tineen-Genus Elachista. Ein Versuch. Linnea entomologica, Berlin, 13, 172 - 314.

Huttunen, M. (1980) Elachista - kasvatuksista. Baptria, 5, 31 - 37.

Ivinskis, P., Pakalniskis, S. & Puplesis, R. (1985) Augalus minuojantys vabzdziai. Vilnius, 240 pp.

Martini, W. (1912 b) Beitrage zur Kenntnis von Arten der Gattung Elachista. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 26, 208 - 211.

Parenti, U. (1977) Revisioni degli Elachistidi (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae) paleartici. IV. Le specie di Elachistidi descritte da H. Frey e P. C. Zeller. Bollettino del Museo di Zoologia dell'Universita di Torino, 3, 19 - 50.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

Genus

Elachista