Elegia atrifasciella Ragonot 1887
Creators: name: Yepishin, Viktor
name: Khalaim, Yevhenii
name: Budashkin, Yuriy
name: Zhakov, Oleksandr
name: Mushynskyi, Vadym
name: Novytskyi, Sergiy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Restionaceae
Elegia
Elegia atrifasciella

description: Elegia atrifasciella Ragonot, 1887   
 Material examined: 1♀, Kyiv reg., Obukhiv distr., vic. Velykyi Bukryn, 20. V.2011 (I. Kostjuk), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 274.20 ♀, (ZMKU). 1♂, Odesa reg., Rozdilna distr., SW vic. of Kardamycheve vill., 46°57’21”N, 29°54’00”E, 2. V.2020 (Ye. Khalaim), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 381.20 ♂, (VYe). 1♂, Odesa reg., Podilsk distr., SE vic. Murovana, 47°46’30”N, 29°26’07”E, 8.VIII.2020, (Ye. Khalaim), genitalia in glycerol vial: V. Yepishin prep. no. 531.21 ♂, (VYe). 1♀, Kherson reg., Skadovsk distr., Burkuty, 46°23’39.3”N, 32°48’34.3”E, 9–10. V.2018 (V. Mushynskyi, O. Zhakov), genitalia in glycerol vial: V. Yepishin prep. no. 445.20 ♀, (VM). 1♀, Kherson reg., Skadovsk distr., 1,5 km SE Burkuty, steppe, 46°23’36”N, 32°48’37”E, at light, 12–14.VII.2019 (V. Yepishin), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 255.19 ♀, (VYe). 1♀, Zaporizhzhia reg., Melitopol distr., Bohatyr, 13.VII.2000 (V. Hetmanchuk), genitalia in glycerol vial: V. Yepishin prep. no. 275.20 ♀, (VYe). 1♀, Crimea, Kara Dag, at light, 6. V.2004 (Yu. Budashkin), genitalia in glycerol vial: V. Yepishin prep. no. 273.20 ♀. 1♂, Crimea, Kara Dag, 20. V.2006 (Yu. Budashkin), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 511.21 ♂. 1♀, Crimea, Kara Dag, 30. VI.2006 (Yu. Budashkin), genitalia in glycerol vial: V. Yepishin prep. no. 510.21 ♀. 1♂, Crimea, Kara Dag, at light, 29.VII.2011 (O. Bidzilya), genitalia in glycerol vial: V. Yepishin prep. no. 512.21 ♂, (all ZMKU).   
 Distribution: probably from W Europe to European part of Russia, known from Lower Volga region of Russia (E. Tsvetkov, pers. comm.); distribution requires clarification due to the problem of distinguishing between Elegia fallax (Staudinger, 1881) and E. atrifasciella. In Ukraine: Chernihiv (Panasyura & Govorun 2012: as E. atrifasciella), Kharkiv (Karolinskiy et al. 2019: as E. fallax, after re-identification— E. atrifasciella (Karolinskiy et al. (in press)), Mykolaiv & Kherson (Black Sea Reserve) (Zelinska 1959: as E. atrifasciella; Zelinska 1961: as E. atrifasciella, 1977: as E. atrifasciella), Kherson (Govorun 2008a: as E. fallax), Zaporizhzhia & Donetsk (Bidzilya et al. 2001: as E. atrifasciella), Donetsk (Pak 1998a: as E. atrifasciella), Luhansk (Pak 1998a: as E. atrifasciella; Pak & Yaroshenko 2001b: as E. atrifasciella; Demyanenko et al. 2018: as E. fallax) regions and Crimea (Budashkin 2004: as E. fallax), first records for Kyiv and Odesa regions.   
 Remark. Roesler (1988) synonymized Elegia atrifasciella with E. fallax, thus, records from Ukraine cited between 1988 and 2019 as E. fallax require verification, as Slamka (2019: 25) proved that E. atrifasciella is a distinct species. So far, we have not found E. fallax in the territory of Ukraine. All findings of these two species should be verified by examination of the genitalia. The recently described species from the Balkans, Elegia occultalis Plant, 2020 (Plant et al. 2020) can be confused with the two abovementioned species, however, it is distinguished by the male genitalia. Elegia occultalis has not been found in Ukraine.
description: Published as part of Yepishin, Viktor, Khalaim, Yevhenii, Budashkin, Yuriy, Zhakov, Oleksandr, Mushynskyi, Vadym & Novytskyi, Sergiy, 2021, New records of pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from different regions of Ukraine, pp. 366-388 in Zootaxa 5023 (3) on pages 367-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5226112