1130 - Elachista illectella - Elachista illectella

Moved

… Mark Dreiling, 13 January, 2013 - 7:34am

Moved to Elachista herbigrada

… Steve Nanz, 22 July, 2012 - 5:20am

Moved

Moved from Elachista illectella. Now shown at BOLD as 1130 Elachista herbigrada . All seven of my specimens have been changed. January 13,2013 Now back to E. illectella - - -

… Mark Dreiling, 21 July, 2012 - 2:39pm

Moved

Moved from Elachista.
This specimen is shown here as Cosmiotes illectella: BOLD:AAD9052

… Mark Dreiling, 14 November, 2009 - 5:25pm

DNA results

The identification as Cosmiotes illectella is now supported by DNA barcoding match
BOLD LPOKB053-09 The taxonomy relationship tree shows a 100% match with some
specimens only identified as Elachista. Elachista illectella is not listed in BOLD.

… Mark Dreiling, 14 November, 2009 - 5:24pm

Update

Elachista and Cosmiotes were "synonymized under Elachista in the phylogeny of Kaila (1999a)". See update on microleps.org here.

… Steve Nanz, 26 November, 2009 - 5:25am

1129 - Elachista illectella

.... according to Terry Harrison, to whom I sent the photo. The extensive white scaling in the dark fields was his main clue.

… Bob Patterson, 21 September, 2008 - 9:02am

Cosmiotes illectella?

FYI - All-Leps lists this as Elachista illectella but microleps.org and MPG lists this as Cosmiotes illectella? microleps.org goes so far as to give a description of the difference between the two genera stating that Cosmiotes is tends to be smaller and, like Terry Harrison points out:

"The color and pattern are of the "blackish with white markings" type seen in some Elachista (such as E. leucofrons, above), but the white fasciae and patches on the forewing are more diffuse, with the dark areas more heavily suffused with white scaling, than in the Elachista spp. of this color pattern."

Terry Harrison also calls this Cosmiotes illectella in the other identified photo in Bugguide.

… Steve Nanz, 4 October, 2008 - 5:07am

Great!

Thanks for the effort.

… Mark Dreiling, 21 September, 2008 - 9:42am