Elasmopalpus

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

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| taxon = Elasmopalpus

| authority = C. É. Blanchard, 1852{{cite web |url= http://www.pyraloidea.org |title=Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ) |last1=Nuss |first1=Matthias |last2=Landry |first2=Bernard |last3=Mally |first3=Richard |last4=Vegliante |first4=Francesca |last5=Tränkner |first5=Andreas |last6=Bauer |first6=Franziska |last7=Hayden |first7=James |last8=Segerer |first8=Andreas |last9=Schouten |first9=Rob |last10=Li |first10=Houhun |last11=Trofimova |first11=Tatiana |last12=Solis |first12=M. Alma |author-link12=Maria Alma Solis |last13=De Prins |first13=Jurate |last14=Speidel |first14=Wolfgang |date=2003–2023 |access-date=2023-04-07}}

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File:Elasmopalpus_lignosellus_adult.jpg

Elasmopalpus is a snout moth genus in the subfamily Phycitinae described by Émile Blanchard in 1852. The genus is restricted to the Americas and currently comprises three species: the type species E. angustellus, described by Blanchard together with the genus, E. corrientellus Ragonot, 1888, and E. lignosellus (Zeller, 1848), a pest species of Poaceae and Fabaceae crops that is widespread throughout the Americas. Elasmopalpus is considered to be closely related to the genus Ufa.{{cite journal |last=Heinrich |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Heinrich |date=1956 |title=American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae |journal=Bulletin of the United States National Museum |place=Washington, D.C. |volume=207 |pages=i–viii, 1–581 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/30425/1956_Bulletin_1-581.pdf}}{{rp|170}}