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Elachista Sruoga & Sinev & Rocienė 2017
Description
Elachista sp. near triatomea (Haworth, 1828)
(FIGS 10–16)
Material examined. 1♂, KABARDINO-BALKARIYA, ZAPOVEDNIK (NATURE RESERVE), H=2200 M, 18–19.VII.1989, ZAGULYAEV LEG. GEN. PREP. VS362 (ZIN).
Remarks. THE SINGLE SPECIMEN COLLECTED IN CAUCASUS IS VERY CLOSE TO Elachista triatomea (fOR ILLUSTRATIONS REfER TO TRAUGOTT-OLSEN & NIELSEN 1977: fIGS 80, 324, 325 AND KAILA 1998: fIG. 8), HOWEVER, THE fOREWING IS WITHOUT TWO BROWNISH SPOTS (FIG. 10). IN MALE GENITALIA, THE COSTA Of VALVA IS MORE CONVEX MEDIALLY AND MORE CONCAVE BEfORE CUCULLUS IN THE CAUCASIAN SPECIMEN (FIGS 12, 16). IT MAY REPRESENT AN UNDESCRIBED SPECIES, BUT THE MATERIAL AVAILABLE IS TOO LIMITED fOR A SAfE IDENTIfICATION.
Notes
Published as part of Sruoga, Virginijus, Sinev, Sergey Yu. & Rocienė, Agnė, 2017, The Elachistidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of Caucasus, with description of three new species, pp. 241-262 in Zootaxa 4338 (2) on page 245, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1036093
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PREP
- Event date
- 1989-07-18
- Family
- Elachistidae
- Genus
- Elachista
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Sruoga & Sinev & Rocienė
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Verbatim event date
- 1989-07-18/19
- Taxonomic concept label
- Elachista Sruoga, 2017 sec. Sruoga, Sinev & Rocienė, 2017
References
- Haworth, A. H. (1828) Lepidoptera Britannica; sistens digestionem novam insectorum lepidopterorum quae in Magne Britannia reperiuntur, larvarum pabulo, temporeque pascendi, expansione alarum; men sibusque volandi; synonymis atque locis observationibusque variis. Pars IV cum indice finali. R. Taylor, Londini, 98 pp. [pp. 512 - 609]
- Traugott-Olsen, E. & Nielsen, E. S. (1977) The Elachistidae (Lepidoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 6, 1 - 299.
- Kaila, L. (1998) Two new Elachista species (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae) from the Polar Urals region, Russia. Entomologica Fennica, 8, 219 - 223.