''Elachista patersoniae'' is a
moth of the family
Elachistidae. It is found in south-eastern
New South Wales, Australia.
The
wingspan is for males and for females.
The larvae feed on ''
Patersonia sericea
''Patersonia sericea'', commonly known as purple flag or silky purple-flag is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a densely-tufted perennial herb with linear, sword-shaped leaves, broadly eg ...
'' and ''
Patersonia longifolia''. They
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
the leaves of their host plant.
References
Moths described in 2011
patersoniae
Moths of Australia
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