Elachista metella Kaila, 2002

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 92-93

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:12883950-D194-450A-BC4F-7996F5815E4F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F0F465-C50B-5E64-08D4-478452D41350

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scientific name

Elachista metella Kaila, 2002
status

 

Elachista metella Kaila, 2002 View in CoL

Elachista metella Kaila, 2002: 182 View in CoL . Type locality: Croatia, Krk , Punat (Kaila 2002: 182). Holotype ♂, in ZMUC.

Svenssonia metella: Parenti (2009: 30) .

Elachista cingillella auct ., nec Herrich-Schäffer, partim.

Subgenus: Aphelosetia ; argentella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland.

Larval host plant(s): Brachypodium pinnatum (Poaceae) . Due to taxonomic confusion with Elachista cingillella the host plant records are uncertain. Parenti & Varalda (1994) list the following host plants for E. cingillella which may partly or entirely be attributable to E. metella : Bromus erectus Hudson , Dicanthium ischaemum (L.) Roberty, Milium effusum L. ( Poaceae ).

Figs.: Kaila & Junnilainen (2002), Parenti (2009).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Elachistidae

Genus

Elachista

Loc

Elachista metella Kaila, 2002

Kaila, Lauri 2019
2019
Loc

Svenssonia metella: Parenti (2009: 30)

Parenti, U. 2009: 30
2009
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