Elachista amseli Rebel 1933

Elachista amseli Rebel, 1933 Figs 7, 8, 15 Elachista amseli Rebel, 1933: 81 External appearance (Figs 7, 8, here translation from Gaedike 1975). Head, palpi, and thorax uniformly light, almost white. Forewing with white background with light brown spots. The entire basal third almost uniformly covered by brown-grey scales. Further light brown areas found along the costal margin of the wing, at the wing tip, and in two larger spots on the hind margin in the second half. In lighter specimens, the white ground colour is more prominent. Description. Male genitalia (Figs 15, 19). The valve is slightly narrower but otherwise similar to E. dimorphella. The phallus is relatively broad but narrower than in E. dimorphella, 2 / 3 as long as the valva, thus longer than in E. dimorphella. Female. Externally as male; genitalia unknown. A male paralectotype examined by us, preserved in SMNK, Karlsruhe, externally fully matches the above description. In our opinion, the differences in the shapes of valvae of the lectotype (Fig. 19) and paralectotype (Fig. 15) are primarily caused by the different level of pressure on the coverslips during fixation of the preparations.