Elachista tanaella
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Elachistidae |
| Genus: | Elachista |
| Species: | E. tanaella
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Elachista tanaella is a moth of the family Elachistidae, the grass-miner moths. It is only known from northern Norway.
Taxonomy
[edit]Elachista tanaella was first formally described in 2003 by Leif Aarvik and Karl Berggren with its type locality given as Norway. This species has been placed in the bifasciella subgroup of the Elaschia bifasciella species complex but the anatomy of the male anntennae, with its short visible cilia, are unique within this complex setting this taxon apart from other taxa within that complex.[2] The grass miner moths in the family Elastichidae are classified within the superfamily Gelechioidea[3] of the clade Ditrysia, the lepidopteran clade which includes all of the butterflies and themajority of moth species.[4]
Description
[edit]Elachista tanaella has a wingspan of 8.5–11.5 millimetres (0.33–0.45 in). The head is brownish grey, with paler, nearly white, posterior scales on the neck tufts with the scales on the labial palpus and antennae being grey and some ligher scales on the scape, i.e. the basal segment of the antenna. Thethorax is brownish grey with some paler scales with darker tips. the tegulae have pale scale to the posterior, some of these have darker tips. The abdomen is brownish grey with a yellowish-grey anal tuft in males and a more ochre-coloured anal tudt in females. The forewing is plain brownish-grey and the hindwing is grey.[2]
Habitat
[edit]Elachista tanaella is found immediately above the tree line in wet bogs dominated by Carex rotundata. with some Eriophorum angustifolium also growing alongise the C. rotundata and Salix glauca forming patches within the bogs and around them.[2]
Biology
[edit]Elachista tanaella adults have been recorded in July. The larvae feed on Carex rotundata. They mine the leaves of their host plant.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Elachista (Elachista) tanaella Aarvik & Berggren 2003". 2.6.2. Fauna Europaea. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ a b c Aarvik, Leif & Berggren, Kai (2003). "Description of Elachista tanaella sp. n. (Elachistidae) from Arctic Norway". Nota Lepidopterologica. 26 (3/4): 83–87.
- ^ Hodges, R.W. (1999). "The Gelechioidea". In Kristensen, N.P (ed.). Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology (Volume IV – Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 35: Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies 1). Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 131–158. ISBN 3-11-015704-7.
- ^ Regier, Jerome C.; Zwick, Andreas; Cummings, Michael P.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Cho, Soowon; Weller, Susan; Roe, Amanda; Baixeras, Joaquin; Brown, John W.; Parr, Cynthia; Davis, Donald R. (2009-12-02). "Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9 (1): 280. Bibcode:2009BMCEE...9..280R. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-280. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 2796670. PMID 19954545.
- ^ "Description of Elachista tanaella sp. n. (Elachistidae) from Arctic Norway". Bladmineerders.nl. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved September 8, 2013.