| Elachista holdgatei | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Elachistidae |
| Genus: | Elachista |
| Species: | E. holdgatei |
| Binomial name | |
| Elachista holdgatei (Bradley, 1965) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Elachista holdgatei is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by John David Bradley in 1965. [1] It is found on the Falkland Islands. [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 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 falaxella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Sinev and Sruoga in 1995. It is found in south-eastern Siberia.
Elachista epicaeria is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1955. It is found in New Guinea.
Elachista laquaeorum is a species of moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by John S. Dugdale in 1971. It is found on the Snares Islands south of New Zealand.
Elachista ochroleuca is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1923. It is found in New Zealand.
Elachista jordanella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1935. It is found in Palestine.
Elachista kleini is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1935. It is found in Palestine. There are also records for Spain, Portugal, former Yugoslavia and European Turkey.
Elachista albisquamella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Zeller in 1877. It is found in Colombia.
Elachista confirmata is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in southern India.
Elachista griseola is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1955. It is found in New Guinea.
Elachista sagittifera is a species of moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1927. It is endemic to New Zealand and is known from Arthur's Pass. It is similar in appearance to Elachista thallophora. Adults are on the wing in February.
Elachista tabghaella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1935. It is found in Palestine.
Elachista watti is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Philpott in 1924. It is found in New Zealand.
Elachista galatheae is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Viette in 1954. It is found on Campbell Island and the Antipodes Islands.
Elachista hookeri is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by John S. Dugdale in 1971. It is found in New Zealand, where it has been recorded from the Auckland Islands.
Elachista stelviella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1932. It is found in South Tyrol, Italy.
Elachista ladiniella is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Friedrich Hartig in 1938. It is found in southern Austrian state of Tyrol.
Elachista vastata is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in India.
Hans Georg Amsel was a German entomologist with four publications ranging from 1951 to 1962. His home town was Cologne, although he frequently was in Kiel. His original job was in the banking industry, and he later worked in a bookstore. After quitting his job as bookstore worker, he decided to follow his heart and transfer to zoology, where he became an entomologist. His specific profession was studying Lepidoptera. "Soon after he was appointed as Head of Department of Entomology at the Colonial and Overseas museum called to Bremen, then rendered military service and, worked as a private scholar, he came as entomologist at the State Collections of Natural History in Karlsruhe," states a letter for his 60th birthday from the Journal of the Entomological Society of Vienna. During Amsel's career, he authored about twenty-six different Lepidoptera species and genera, and published four books.