''Elachista hiranoi'' is a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family
Elachistidae. It was described by Sugisima in 2005. It is found in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
(Kyushu, Honshu).
The length of the forewings is 3.5–4.3 mm for males and 3.4–4.1 mm for females.
Japanese Elachista studied by Parenti (1983) (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae): The Subgenus Aphelosetia and the Gleichenella-, Tetragonella-, and Bifasciella-Groups
/ref>
References
Moths described in 2005
hiranoi
Moths of Japan
{{Elachista-stub