Elachista hispanica Traugott-Olsen 1992
Creators: name: Kaila, Lauri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Elachistidae
Elachista
Elachista hispanica

description: Elachista hispanica Traugott-Olsen, 1992
Figs. 40–45, 103–110, 139
Elachista hispanica Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 214.
Elachista vivesi Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 213. Syn. nov.
Elachista cuencaensis Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 212. Syn. nov.
Elachista vanderwolfi Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 124. Syn. nov.
Elachista amparoae Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 231. Syn. nov.
Elachista varensis Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 232. Syn. nov.
Elachista luqueti Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 209. Syn. nov.
Elachista occidentella Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 207. Syn. nov.
Elachista clintoni Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 208. Syn. nov.
Material studied. Type material. Holotype ♂ of E. hispanica labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Genital praeparat nr. C. 19.6.85 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Wing praeparat nr. 25.10.89 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Hispania, Cataluna, Collado de Falset 3.7.1967 leg. E. Arenberger; Elachista hispanica sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen; DNA sample 16855 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. vivesi labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Wing praeparat nr.A. 27.10.89 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Campo Real, Madrid, 640 m, 19.9.1979 A. Vives leg.; Genitalia no 1572 ♂ Elachista vivesi Tr. - O. Antonio Vives det.; Holotipo [red]; MNCN Cat. Tipos No 11500 [red]; MNCN Prep. Gen 60978, 60979; MNCN _Ent No Cat. 42013 (MNCN, Madrid). Holotype ♂ of E. vanderwolfi labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; France Drôme, la Penneze-s-l-Ouvèze 25.–27.VII.1986 H. W. v. d. Wolf; Genital praeparat nr. D. 11.8.88 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen H. W. v. d. Wolf; Wing praeparat nr. A. 16.9.89 sex: ♂ E. Traugott- Olsen; Elachista vanderwolfi sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen; DNA sample 16837 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. amparoae labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Genital praeparat nr. H. 22.1.88 sex: ♂ E. Traugott- Olsen; Wing praeparat nr. B. 16.9.89 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Spain Albacete Paterna del Madera, 1350 m, 18. 7.1986 C. Gielis leg.; Elachista amparoae sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen (RMNH, Leiden). Holotype ♂ of E. varensis labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Genital praeparat nr. I. 19.6.89 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; France, Var, 20 km S. St. Tropez, Cap Cartaya, Plage de l’Escalet 8.IV.1988, sea level, O. Karsholt & N. P. Kristensen leg.; Elachista varensis sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen; DNA sample 16844 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E occidentella, labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Portugal, Ext. 3 km E Cabo da Roca, 200 m, 8.VII.1986 O. Karsholt leg.; Genital praeparat nr. D. 19.1.88 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen ZMUC; Wing genital praeparat nr. B. 25.10.89 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; leg. O. Karsholt; Elachista occidentella sp. n. det. E. Traugott- Olsen; DNA sample 16835 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. clintoni: slide labelled: Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Microlepidoptera ♂ 21929 ETO A 11.1.86 Euparal; Elachista clintoni Traugott-Olsen; S. France, Cannes II. IV.1881 Wlsm. 85306 HOLOTYPE (BMNH). Other material. France: 3°03’20’’E 43°02’54’’N, Narbonne, Salins de Saint Lucia, 30–31. VIII.2005, 2 ♂, Ch. Wieser leg., DNA samples 16765, 16799 Lepid. Phyl. (Coll. Wieser, 1 ♂ in MZH); Bouches du Rhone, Camargue, 23. IX.1974, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, M. & W. Glaser leg., L. Kaila prep. 5733, 5739 (SMNK); St. Jean du Gard, 16–30. VII.2007, 1 ♂, L. Kaila prep. 4970 (Coll. Wikström); Provence, 4 km N Euguians, 4. VII.1989, 1 ♂, B.. Bengtsson leg., Bengtsson prep. 3369, E. baldizzonella E. Traugott-Olsen det. (Coll. Bengtsson); RN06 Alpes Maritimes, 2 km NW Grasse, 550 m, 22. IV.2003, 2 ♂, J. Junnilainen leg., L. Kaila prep. 5906, J. Tabell prep. 4479, DNA sample 21408 (Coll. Junnilainen, MZH); Var, RN 83, 5 km SE Le Lac, Garces, 1. IV.2003, 2 ♂, J. Junnilainen leg., L. Kaila prep. 5907, J. Tabell prep. 4476, DNA sample 21409 (Coll. Junnilainen). Portugal: Algarve, Pr. Bensafrim, 4. IX.1973, 1 ♂, P. Grotenfelt leg., L. Kaila prep. 4706 (MZH). Russia: Belgorod GECN 5040E3615, 1 –7.VI.2006,, 1 ♂, K. Lundsten leg, L. Kaila prep. 4969 (MZH). Spain: Almeria, Puerto Ragua, 2000 m, 9. VII.1981, 1 ♂, P. Stadel Nielsen leg., L. Kaila prep. 4682 (ZMUC); Granada, 37°32’40’’N, 2°33’11’’W, 6 km N Baza, 1. XI.2001, 2 ♂, C. & F. K. Gielis leg., L. Kaila prep. 4244, DNA samples 11346, 11377 Lepid. Phyl. (MZH); Granada, Pierto de la Mora, 1300 m, 13. IX.1974, 4 ♂, Glaser leg., L. Kaila prep. 5814, 5815 (SMNK); Granada, Veleta, 3100 m, 28. VII.1999, 1 ♂, J. Junnilainen leg., L. Kaila prep. 4094, DNA sample 11363 Lepid. Phyl. (Coll. Junnilainen); Valencia, 39°19’67’’N, 0°18’46’’E, Albufera, 5 m, 8– 9. IX.2005, 2 ♂, Ch. Wieser leg., DNA samples 16766, 16767 Lepid. Phyl. (Coll. Wieser); 39°19’67’’N, 0°18’47’’E, Albufera, El Saler, 5 m, 7. IX.2005, 1 ♂, P. Huemer leg., DNA sample 16745 (TLMF); Tarragona, 5 km S. of St. Carles de la Ràpita, 20 m, 14. VI.1999, 1 ♂, P. Skou leg., L. Kaila 4700 (ZMUC); Prov. Zaragoza, 4112’30’N, 111’36’W, 3 km E Cerveruela at Rio del Huelva, 800 m, 7. VII.2002, 1 ♂, B. Skule leg., L. Kaila prep. 4294 (ZMUC); Teruel, 4 km E Cosa, 28. VIII.2000, 1 ♂, HW VD Wolf leg, L. Kaila prep. 3919, DNA sample 11375 (MZH).
Diagnosis. The male of Elachista hispanica is characterized by a very long phallus, length 1.2 times than that of the valva. The female genitalia are characterized by the very wide ostium bursae, posteriorly abruptly tapered, deep and narrow antrum, relatively short and the broad ductus bursae that is incepted on the corpus bursae with distinct junction, and the absence of an appendix bursae.
Distribution. France, Portugal, Russia, Spain.
Remarks. Traugott-Olsen considered the large pinaculae on the bases of setae on the digitate process as a diagnostic character of E. clintoni. Such pinaculae are present in all the taxa examined and these are all considered synonyms of E. hispanica. The aquarelle of the habitus of E. luqueti in Traugott-Olsen (1992) has been painted from a misidentified specimen that belongs to the E. pollinariella group, in MZH. E. hispanica is referred to as OTU 15 in Mutanen et al. (2015).
description: Published as part of Kaila, Lauri, 2015, The Elachista dispunctella (Duponchel) complex (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae) revisited, with exceptional level of synonymy, pp. 301-358 in Zootaxa 3980 (3) on pages 334-337, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/254013