Elachista pollutella

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Elachista pollutella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Elachista
Species:
E. pollutella
Binomial name
Elachista pollutella
Duponchel, 1843 [1]

Elachista pollutella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from France and Belgium to Ukraine and from Germany to Italy, Hungary and Romania. It has also been recorded from Greece, southern parts of European Russia and the Crimea, Siberian Russia and Mongolia. [2]

The wingspan is 11–13 mm. [3]

The larvae feed on Elymus hispidus . They mine the leaves of their host plant. [4]

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. On species related to Elachista pollutella Duponchel (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae), with descriptions of four new Palaearctic species
  3. "A magyarországi molylepkék gyakorlati albuma" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  4. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-08.