Elachista tribertiella Traugott-Olsen 1985
Creators: name: Kaila, Lauri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Elachistidae
Elachista
Elachista tribertiella

description: Elachista tribertiella Traugott-Olsen, 1985
Figs. 25–30, 86–93, 136
Elachista tribertiella Traugott-Olsen, 1985: 74.
Elachista toveella Traugott-Olsen, 1985: 73. Syn. nov.
Elachista baldizzonella Traugott-Olsen, 1985: 74. Syn. nov.
Elachista veletaella Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 222. Syn. nov.
Elachista bazaella Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 221. Syn. nov.
Elachista louiseae Traugott-Olsen, 1992: 238. Syn. nov.
Material studied. Type material. Holotype ♂ of E. tribertiella labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Genital praeparat nr. 5810 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Wing praeparat nr. 6266 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Hispania, Andalucia, Sierra Nevada, Cam. d. Veleta, 2000 m, 24.7.1983 E. Traugott-Olsen leg.; Elachista tribertiella n. sp. E. Traugott-Olsen det; DNA sample MM16872 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. toveella labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Genital praeparat nr. 5798 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Hispania, Andalucia, Sierra Nevada, Cam. d. Veleta 1750 m, 24.7.1983 E. Traugott-Olsen leg.; Elachista toveella sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen; DNA sample MM16848 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. baldizzonella labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Genital praeparat nr. 5817 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Wing praeparat nr. 6265 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Hispania, Andalucia, Sierra Nevada, Cam. de Veleta, 2000 m, 24.7.1983 E. Traugott-Olsen leg.; Elachista baldizzonella sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen; DNA sample MM16869 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. veletaella labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; Hispania, Andalucia, Sierra Nevada, Cam. d. Veleta, 2000 m, 24.7.1983 E. Traugott-Olsen; Wing praeparat nr. 6241 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Elachista veletaella sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen; L. Kaila prep. 5292; DNA sample MM16843 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. bazaella labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; genital praeparat nr. 5876 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; wing praeparat nr. C. 1.11.91 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Hispania, Andalucia, Sierra Nevada, Cam. de Veleta, 2000 m, 25.7.1983 leg. G. Baldizzone & P. Triberti; Elachista bazaella sp. n. det. E. Traugott-Olsen; DNA sample MM16842 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Holotype ♂ of E. louiseae labelled: Type [rounded with red margin]; genital praeparat nr. 5868 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Wing praeparat nr. 6238 sex: ♂ E. Traugott-Olsen; Hispania, Andalusia, Sierra Nevada, 1900– 2000 m, Strada Veleta 25.VII.1983 leg. G. Baldizzone & P. Triberti; Elachista louiseae sp. n. det. Traugott-Olsen; DNA sample MM16870 Lepid. Phyl. (ZMUC). Other material. Spain: Alicante, Sierra de Crevillente, 5 km NE Albatera, 450 m, 38°15.82’N, 00°54.86’W, 2. IX.2005, 2 ♂, 1 ♀, P. Huemer leg., L. Kaila prep. 5576, 5577, 5578, DNA samples 16739–41 Lepid. Phyl. (TLMF); Alicante, 3 km SW San Miguel de Salinas, 13. IV.2009, 1 ♂, J. Tabell leg., J. Tabell prep. 4408, DNA sample 0 5567 Lepid. Phyl.; 16. IV.2009, 1 ♂, J. Tabell prep. 4595, DNA sample 0 5588 Lepid. Phyl.; 23. IV.2009, 1 ♂, J. Tabell prep. 4397, DNA sample 0 5580 Lepid. Phyl., (Coll. Tabell); Almeria, 20 km N Almeria, 13. IV.2013, 1 ♂, T. Nupponen leg., L. Kaila prep. 5924 (Coll. Nupponen); Almeria, Sierra Nevada, 1100 m, 6 km Puerto de la Ragua, 22. VIII.1998, 1 ♂, T. Nupponen leg., L. Kaila prep. 4145 (Coll. Nupponen); 37°19’72’’N, 3°21’18’’W, Granada, 2 km W Diezma, 1400 m, 9–10. VII.2010, 1 ♂, Z. Tokár leg., DNA sample 20510 Lepid. Phyl, (Coll. Tokár); Granada, Sierra Nevada, 2500 m, 20 km SE Granada, 12. VII.2010, 1 ♂, T. Nupponen leg., L. Kaila prep. 5356, DNA sample 15477 Lepid. Phyl. (Coll. Nupponen); Andalucia, Sierra Nevada, Cam. d. Veleta, 2500 m, 18. VII.1965, 1 ♂, L. Kaila prep. 4053, 2300 m, 19.VIII.1984 1 ♂, 1. VII.1986, 2 ♂, E. Traugott-Olsen leg., L. Kaila prep. 4693, 5563, 5565 (ZMUC); Málaga, Sierra de Tejeda, 3 km NWN Sedella, 630 m, 16. IX.2013, 1 ♂, J. Tabell leg., J. Tabell prep. 5126 (Coll. Tabell); Murcia, 4 km SW Aguila, 24. IV.1995, 1 ♂, H.W. v.d. Wolf leg., E. Traugott-Olsen prep. B. 2.VIII.1996, E. bazaella E. Traugott-Olsen det. (MZH).
Diagnosis. The male genitalia of E. tribertiella are similar to those of E. glaseri. The length of the phallus is 6/ 7 of the length of valva in E. tribertiella, less in E. glaseri, in which the phallus is a little broader at the base than in E. tribertiella. The valva is straight in E. tribertiella, somewhat s-shaped in E. glaseri. As these differences are subtle, show some variation, and may be distorted during dissection, it is possible that the males of these species may not always be distinguishable from each other. The female of the species differs more from each other: in E. glaseri the width of the ostium bursae is 1/3 of the distance between apophyses anteriores, the ductus bursae is broad and is incepted on the corpus bursae without distinct border, and its appendix bursae is about three times as long as wide. In E. tribertiella the width of the ostium bursae is half the distance between the apophyses anteriores, the ductus bursae is very narrow and incepted on the corpus bursae with distinct border and the appendix bursae is over four times as long as wide.
E. tribertiella varies from white to slightly suffused, usually with scattered dark-brown scales which, however, are easily lost. Its size is also variable from small to medium-sized within the E. dispunctella group, with wingspan ranging from 8–10 mm.
Remarks. E. tribertiella is referred to as the similar OTUs 9 and 10 with their barcode difference of 1.4% 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 327-329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/254013