Elachista staintonella Chambers 1878

Elachista staintonella Chambers
1878. Elachista staintonella Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. of Terr., iv, 96. Type S, Texas [M. C. Z., Type No. 1514].
1880. Elachista staintonella Chambers, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 11, p. 204, fig. 49.
Head and palpi creamy white, antennae creamy white with faint fuscous annulations toward apex. Fore wings pale ocherous, with brownish dusting ; an irregular angulated creamy white fascia before middle and a faintly defined narrower acutely angulated fascia at two-thirds, narrowed toward dorsum, its angle reaching nearly to apex. The ocherous basal third of the wing is dusted only in the costal half, and dorsally shades into the whitish fascia; the dusted ocherous band between the two whitish fasciae is widest on costa; dusting somewhat denser at apex. Cilia pale ocherous, with the brown-tipped scales projecting into them around apex and along termen. Hind wings yellowish white, with fuscous dusting ; cilia pale ocherous. Alar expanse: somewhat greater than the "three lines" given by Chambers.
Known only from the male type in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
The venation of this species is not correctly delineated by Chambers in his figure of the wings; vein M, is out of the stalk of R 4 + -, in the fore wing; in the hind wing, M :1 is present (not absent) although very indistinct; the hind wing is rather narrow (as figured by Chambers).
E. staintonella appears to be related to maritimella McDunnough ; the denser brownish dusting defines the markings more clearly than in that species.

Elachista staintonella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Texas.

The forewings are pale ocherous, with brownish dusting and an irregular angulated creamy white fascia before the middle, as well as a faintly defined narrower acutely angulated fascia at two-thirds. The basal third of the wing is ocherous. The hindwings are yellowish white, with fuscous dusting.