Elachista virgatula Kaila, 1997

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 138

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

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scientific name

Elachista virgatula Kaila, 1997
status

 

Elachista virgatula Kaila, 1997 View in CoL

Phigalia albella Chambers, 1875b: 107 . A secondary junior homonym of Tinea albella Müller, 1776: 137 View in CoL . Type locality: U.S.A., Texas. Type material lost ( Braun (1948: 42).

Elachista albella: Braun (1948: 41) View in CoL .

Elachista virgatula Kaila, 1997: 48 View in CoL . Replacement name for Phigalia albella Chambers, 1875b: 107 . Type locality: U.S.A., Colorado, Fort Collins ( Kaila 1997: 48). Neotype ♂, designated by Kaila (1997: 48), in MCZ.

Aphigalia albella: Dyar (1903: 544) .

Subgenus: Aphelosetia ; argentella View in CoL species group.

Distribution: Nearctic. Canada (Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan), U.S.A. (Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming).

Larval host plant(s): unknown.

Figs.: Kaila (1997).

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

Chambers, V. T. (1875 b) On Tineina from Texas, with descriptions of new species. The Canadian Entomologist, 7, 7 - 12 + 30 - 35 + 51 - 56 + 105 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 7105 - 6

Dyar, H. G. (1903) A list of the North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 52, i-xix + 1 - 723. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.52. i

Kaila, L. (1997) A revision of the Nearctic Elachista s. l. II. The argentella group (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae). Acta Zoologica Fennica, 206, 1 - 93.

Muller, O. F. (1776) Zoologicae Danicae prodromus. Hallafer, Hafniae, 282 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

Genus

Elachista