| Elachista chelonitis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Elachistidae |
| Genus: | Elachista |
| Species: | E. chelonitis |
| Binomial name | |
| Elachista chelonitis Meyrick, 1909 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Elachista chelonitis is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in South Africa, Kenya [1] and Malawi. [2] [3]
The Elachistidae are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and completely unnatural assemblage, united merely by symplesiomorphies retained from the first gelechioid moths.
Cryphioxena is a genus of moths in subfamily Elachistinae that was described in 1921 by Edward Meyrick. Although it is generally considered part of family Elachistidae, subfamily Elachistinae, some authors place the genus in family Bucculatricidae instead.
Urodeta is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae. The genus was originally assigned to the family Momphidae.
Perittia is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae.
Elachista hedemanni is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from Germany to Spain and Romania. It is also found in Ukraine and Russia.
Elachista cordata is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is found in Cameroon.
Urodeta absidata is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Urodeta aculeata is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Urodeta bucera is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Urodeta crenata is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Urodeta cuspidis is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Urodeta faro is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Urodeta tortuosa is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Elachista brevis is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is endemic to Kenya.
Elachista kakamegensis is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is endemic to Kenya.
Elachista longispina is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is endemic to Kenya.
Elachista planca is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is endemic to Kenya.
Elachista archaeonoma is a species of moth in the family Elachistidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1889. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Elachista antipodensis is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was first described by John S. Dugdale in 1971. It is found on the Antipodes Islands.
Urodeta quadrifida is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Tswaing Crater Reserve in Gauteng.