Elachista disemiella Zeller, 1847

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 49

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scientific name	Elachista disemiella Zeller, 1847
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Elachista disemiella Zeller, 1847 View in CoL

Elachista disemiella Zeller, 1847a: 893 View in CoL . Type locality: Italy, Sicilia, near Messina. Lectotype ♂, designated by Parenti (1977: 41), in NHMUK.

Poeciloptilia disemiella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 313) .

‡ Elachista dissemiella ; misspelling ( Frey 1856: 301).

Subgenus: Aphelosetia ; dispilella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. France, Hungary, Italy (Sardinia), Portugal, Spain (continent and Mallorca), Tunisia.

Larval host plant(s): Ampelodesmos mauritanica (Poiret) T. Durand & Schinz (Poaceae) ( Parenti & Varalda 1994).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen (1992); Kaila (2015b).

Remarks: Distribution records outside the Mediterranean region are likely referable to other species in the taxonomically difficult E. dispunctella species complex ( Kaila 2015b).