''Elachista alpinella'' is a
moth of the family
Elachistidae found in Europe and North America.
Description
The
wingspan is The head is fuscous, whitish-sprinkled. Forewings are dark fuscous, basal area in female sometimes pale ; a somewhat curved fascia before middle,
in male obsolete towards costa, an erect triangular tornal spot, and a similar spot on costa beyond it white, in female larger.Hindwings are dark grey.
The moth flies from June through to September.
The larvae feed on acute sedge (''
Carex acuta''), lesser pond-sedge (''
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 ...
''), greater tussock-sedge (''
Carex paniculata
''Carex paniculata'', the greater tussock-sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It grows high and can be found in most of Europe (including Britain), Northwest Asia and North America
North America i ...
'') and greater pond sedge (''
Carex riparia''),
mining the leaves of their host, The mine is narrow and begins just below the tip of the leaf and runs downwards. It might be found along the leaf margin or in the centre of the leaf. It is thought that the larvae start a new mine after hibernation. This mine is similar to the first, but ends near the leaf base. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.
Distribution
It 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 and
Italy and from
Ireland to central
Russia and
Hungary. 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 ...
.
References
alpinella
Leaf miners
Moths described in 1854
Moths of Europe
Moths of North America
Taxa named by Henry Tibbats Stainton
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