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Elasmopalpus corrientellus

Elasmopalpus corrientellus is a species of snout moths in the diverse subfamily Phycitinae. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1888 from a female specimen collected in the eponymous city of Corrientes in Northern Argentina. The species is considered misplaced in Elasmopalpus, but it is currently not clear to which genus it should be transferred.

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Elasmopalpus corrientellus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Subfamily: Phycitinae
Genus: Elasmopalpus
Species:
E. corrientellus
Binomial name
Elasmopalpus corrientellus
Ragonot, 18881

Elasmopalpus corrientellus is a species of snout moths in the diverse subfamily Phycitinae.1 It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1888 from a female specimen collected in the eponymous city of Corrientes in Northern Argentina.2: 23  The species is considered misplaced in Elasmopalpus, but it is currently not clear to which genus it should be transferred.3: 312 

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  1. Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2023). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. Ragonot, Émile Louis (1888). Nouveaux genres et espèces de Phycitidae & Galleriidae (in French). Paris: É. L. Ragonot. pp. 1–52.
  3. Heinrich, Carl (1956). "American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae" (PDF). Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 207: i–viii, 1–581.