Elachista gleichenella (Fabricius, 1781)

Material examined. 1♂, S.[EVERO]-Z.[APADNYI] (NORTH-WESTERN) KAVKAZ (CAUCASUS), KHR.[EBET] (MOUNTAIN RANGE) Azish-Tau, H= 1400 m, 13.vi.1999, V. Shchurov leg. Gen. prep. VS438; 5♂, Kabardino-Balkariya, s.[elo] (village) Verkhnyaya Balkariya, 18.vi.1990, Zagulyaev leg.; 1♂, Gruzinskaya SSR (Georgia), Lagodekhskii zapovednik (Nature Reserve), 07.vi.1986, Lvovsky leg. Gen. prep. VS337 (ZIN); 1♂, same locality, 29.viii.1986, M. V. Kozlov LEG. (LEU).

Distribution. TRANSPALEARCTIC (KAILA et al. 2003). IN CAUCASUS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED fROM EASTERN GEORGIA (SRUOGA 1991) AND KRASNODAR KRAI Of RUSSIA (SHCHUROV 2004B; SINEV 2008).

Remarks. THIS SPECIES IS NEW TO KABARDINO-BALKAR REPUBLIC Of RUSSIA.