An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae)
Author
Kaila, Lauri
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-11
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Elachista saccharella
(
Busck, 1934
)
Donacivola saccharella
Busck, 1934: 169
. Type localities:
Cuba
, [
Estación Experimental Agronómica
at
Santiago de la Vegas
];
Cuba
, Baraguá.
Syntypes
in USNM. See Remarks
.
Elachista saccharella
:
Kaila (1999a: 169)
.
Dicranoctetes saccharella
:
Braun (1935: 47)
.
Subgenus:
Elachista
;
saccharella
species group.
Distribution: Nearctic-Neotropical.
Cuba
,
Peru
,
Equador
,
U.S.A.
(
Florida
,
Louisiana
).
Larval host plant(s):
Saccharum officinarum
L. (
Poaceae
) (
Busck 1934
),?
Muhlenbergia
sp. (
Poaceae
) (
Sruoga 2010
).
Figs.:
Busck (1934)
,
Kaila (1999b)
,
Sruoga (2010)
.
Remarks:
Busck (1934)
implies the existence of one ‘type’, in USNM, Catalogue No. 44141, yet mentions two type localities. According to
Brown
et al.
(2004)
there is in the USNM a female specimen, numbered # 9633, considered the
holotype
by them. This specimen is also mentioned by
Busck (1934)
as part of (?)
syntypes
, yet with an indication that this specimen would not be the primary type. The interpretation of
Brown
et al.
(2004)
was the same as
Kaila’s (1999b)
. The species has been reported to cause damage to sugarcane (
Long & Hensley 1972
).