''Elachista quadripunctella'' is a
moth of the family
Elachistidae. It is found from
Scandinavia and
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
to the
Pyrenees and
Italy and from
France to
Romania.
The
wingspan is 10–12 mm.
The larvae feed on ''
Carex flacca
''Carex flacca'', with common names blue sedge, gray carex, glaucous sedge, or carnation-grass, (syn. ''Carex glauca''), is a species of sedge native to parts of Europe and North Africa. '', ''
Luzula luzuloides
''Luzula luzuloides'', the white wood-rush or oakforest wood-rush is a species of flowering plant in the family Juncaceae (rush family). It is native to Central Europe, from the Balkans to Fennoscandia, but it has also been introduced to the Bri ...
'', ''
Luzula pilosa
''Luzula pilosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae with the common name hairy wood-rush. The plant is native to northern Europe and western Asia.
Description
''Luzula pilosa'' is a short, tufted, grass-like perennia ...
'' and ''
Luzula sylvatica''. 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. A single larva makes several mines. Pupation takes place within the mine.
They are colourless. Larvae can be found from the end of September to the following spring.
References
quadripunctella
Moths described in 1825
Moths of Europe
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