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Family Elachistidae - Grass Miner Moths

Elachistidae of North America (Microlepidoptera)

By Annette F. Braun
Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 13: 1-110, pl. 1-26, 1948

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 17 September, 2017 - 9:32am

Life history of Ethmia macelhosiella (Busck) Lep.

By August Busck, Carl Heinrich
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 24:1-9, 1922

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 March, 2013 - 11:57pm

A revision of the Nearctic species of Elachista s.1 II., the argentella group (Lepidoptera:Elachistidae)

By Lauri Kaila
Acta Zoologica Fennica 206: 1-93. , 2006

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 June, 2013 - 10:30am

A revision of the North American Perittia (=Onceroptila), with first nearctic records of the genus Mendesia (Elachistidae)

By Lauri Kaila
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 49(3): 208-222, 1995

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 16 September, 2017 - 8:10pm

A review of the genus Ethmia, with descriptions of new species

By Harrison G. Dyar
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 10: 202-208, 1902

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 November, 2013 - 10:27am

A new Florida Ethmia moth (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae)

By J. B. Heppner
Tropical Lepidoptera, 2(1): 69-72, 1991

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 March, 2013 - 2:01pm

Biological studies on moths of the genus Ethmia in California (Gelechioidea)

By Jerry A. Powell
The Lepidopterists' Society 25(3): 1-167, 1971

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 February, 2013 - 6:53pm

An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae)

By Lauri Kaila
Zootaxa 4632 (1): 001–231, 2019

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Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 12 July, 2020 - 11:22pm

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