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Elachista
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 (in particular in older sources) 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...
10 branches of this group, most-observed first
Elachista bifasciella
sectionElachista bifasciella
Elachista freyerella
sectionElachista freyerella
Elachista tetragonella
sectionElachista tetragonella
Elachista saccharella group
sectionElachista saccharella
Elachista praelineata
sectionElachista praelineata
Elachista abiskoella
sectionElachista abiskoella
Elachista beltira
sectionElachista beltira
Elachista kherana
sectionElachista kherana
Elachista orba
sectionElachista orba
Elachista endobela
speciesElachista endobela
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1112696.