Elachista chelonitis Meyrick, 1909

Sruoga, Virginijus & Prins, Jurate De, 2009, The Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) of Kenya with descriptions of eight new species, Zootaxa 2172, pp. 1-31 : 7-8

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.189248

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6217284

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scientific name

Elachista chelonitis Meyrick, 1909
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Elachista chelonitis Meyrick, 1909 View in CoL

Material examined: 13, KENYA, Kakamega Forest, 00°20’N 034°51’E, 1645 m: 14.x.2001; 23, 1Ƥ, 15.x.2001; 1Ƥ, 17.x.2001, leg. J. De Prins, gen. prep. MRAC / KMMA 0 0 0 223 and 0 0 0 23Ƥ, specimen IDs RMCA ENT 000002716–000002720 ( RMCA).

For external characters and female genitalia refer to Parenti (1988: 190, 198; fig. 29).

Distribution. South Africa ( Meyrick 1909), Malawi (as “ Nyassaland ”) ( Meyrick 1914b), and Kenya (new record) ( Figs. 4 View FIGURES 1 – 4 , 15 View FIGURE 15 ).

Remark. The species was placed originally in Elachista Treitschke , but subsequently was designated as the type species of the monotypic genus Cleroptila Meyrick (1914b) . We examined the type specimen of E. chelonitis and the material collected in Kenya. The valvae of the male genitalia ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16 – 17 ) are highly modified, but nevertheless, according to the classification proposed by Kaila (1999a), this taxon should be placed in the genus Elachista . Therefore, we synonymise Cleroptila Meyrick with Elachista Treitschke , syn. n.

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

KMMA

Koninklijk Museum voor Midden Afrika

RMCA

Royal Museum for Central Africa

ENT

Ministry of Natural Resources

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

Genus

Elachista

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