| Elachista chionella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Elachistidae |
| Genus: | Elachista |
| Species: | E. chionella |
| Binomial name | |
| Elachista chionella | |
Elachista chionella is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is endemic to Turkey.
Adults have silky white forewings. [2]
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.
Elachista albidella is a moth of the family Elachistidae, described by William Nylander in 1848. Its wingspan ranges from 9–10 millimetres (0.35–0.39 in).The head is white. Forewings are white, costa and sometimes dorsum suffused with fuscous; plical stigma large, elongate, black ; an angulated fuscous fascia beyond middle, angle acutely produced towards apex ; small fuscous costal and dorsal spots near apex. Hindwings are rather dark grey.The larva is greenish-grey, more yellowish anteriorly; head dark brown.
Elachista is a genus of gelechioid moths described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833. It is the type genus of the grass-miner moth family (Elachistidae). This family is sometimes circumscribed very loosely, including for example the Agonoxenidae and Ethmiidae which seem to be quite distinct among the Gelechioidea, as well as other lineages which are widely held to be closer to Oecophora than to Elachista and are thus placed in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae here.
Elachista saarelai is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is endemic to southern Finland.
Elachista megagnathos is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is found in Russia.
Elachista zonulae is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is found in the Alps, the Tatra Mountains in Poland, the Tian Shan Mountains in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and the Altai Mountains in Siberia.
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 elegans is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to Italy, Hungary and the Crimea and from Germany to Russia.
Elachista catalana is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, San Marino and Croatia.
Elachista modesta is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Greece and Turkey.
Elachista dispunctella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in most of Europe, except most of the Balkan Peninsula, Fennoscandia, the Benelux, Portugal, Great Britain, Ireland and Iceland.
Elachista purella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Ukraine.
Elachista baltica is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Sweden, Finland, Poland.
Elachista wieseriella is a moth of the family Elachistidae which is endemic to Austria.
Elachista fuscofrontella is type a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Estonia, Latvia, and Russian Far East.
Elachista imatrella is a moth of the family Elachistidae which is endemic to Finland.
Elachista irenae is a moth of the family Elachistidae which can be found in Poland and Slovakia.
Elachista kosteri is a moth of the family Elachistidae which is endemic to Greece.
”Elachista” parvipulvella is a moth of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It was described from Texas.
Elachista saccharella, the sugarcane leafminer moth, is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Florida, and Louisiana in the United States and in Cuba.