''Elachista albidella'' is a
moth of the family
Elachistidae, described by
William Nylander in 1848. Its
wingspan ranges from .The head is white. Forewings are white, costa and sometimes dorsum suffused with fuscous; plical stigma large, elongate, black ; an angulated fuscous fascia beyond middle, angle acutely produced towards apex ; small fuscous costal and dorsal spots near apex. Hindwings are rather dark grey.The larva is greenish-grey, more yellowish anteriorly; head dark brown.
[Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, Londo]
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Keys and description
''Elachista albidella'' is found from
Fennoscandia
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Fennoscandia (Finnish language, Finnish, Swedish language, Swedish and no, Fennoskandia, nocat=1; russian: Фенноскандия, Fennoskandiya) or the Fennoscandian Peninsula is the geographical peninsula in Europe, which includes ...
and northern
Russia to the
Pyrenees,
Italy and
Hungary and from
Ireland to
Ukraine. It is also found in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
.
The larvae feed on ''
Calamagrostis arundinacea'', ''
Carex acuta'', ''
Carex acutiformis
''Carex acutiformis'', the lesser pond-sedge, is a species of sedge.
Description
It grows up to tall, with leaves up to long and wide.
Ecology
It is native to parts of northern and western Europe, where it grows in moist spots in a number o ...
'', ''
Carex riparia'', ''
Deschampsia cespitosa'', ''
Deschampsia flexuosa'', ''
Eleocharis palustris'', ''
Eriophorum angustifolium
''Eriophorum angustifolium'', commonly known as common cottongrass or common cottonsedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. Native to North America, North Asia, and Northern Europe, it grows on peat or acidic soil ...
'', ''
Melica nutans
''Melica nutans'', known as mountain melick, is a grass species in the family Poaceae, native to European and Asian forests.
Description
The grass has slender creeping rhizomes. The culms are tall. It inflorescence is comprised out of 5–15 ...
'', ''
Poa palustris
''Poa palustris'' (fowl bluegrass, fowl meadowgrass, swamp meadowgrass, woodland bluegrass) is a species of grass native to Asia, Europe and Northern America. This plant is used as fodder and forage, and it also used for erosion control or revege ...
'' and ''Scirpus caespitosus''.
References
External links
Lepidoptera of SwedenMoth Photographers Group
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albidella
Moths described in 1848
Moths of Europe
Moths of North America
Taxa named by William Nylander (botanist)
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