1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Weitere Informationen

2.1. Taxonomie

Aarvik et al. (2017) merken an: "Elachista saarelai Kaila & Sippola, 2010 was synonymized with E. kebneella (Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen, 1977) by Parenti & Pizzolato (2015). The two species are identical in barcodes, and morphological differences are subtle. Elachista saarelai has a two-year life cycle suggesting that it is a boreal species like E. kebneella. The former possibly occurs in central Finland and south central Norway as a glacial relict. However, Kaila & Sippola (2010) detected minor differences in the genitalia, for which reason we prefer to retain the status of E. saarelai as a valid species pending further taxonomic study."

2.2. Literatur

• Aarvik, L., Bengtsson, B.Å., Elven, H., Ivinskis, P., Jürivete, U., Karsholt, O., Mutanen, M. & N. Savenkov (2017): Nordic-Baltic Checklist of Lepidoptera. — Norwegian Journal of Entomology - Supplement No. 3: 1-236. [PDF auf entomologi.no]
• Erstbeschreibung: Kaila, L. & L. Sippola (2010): Elachista saarelai sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae: Elachistinae), a new species from southern Finland. — Entomologica Fennica 21 (3): 129-138. [PDF auf journal.fi]