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

SuperFamily

Gelechioidea

Family

Elachistidae

SubFamily

Elachistinae

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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