''Elachista stabilella'' is a
moth of the family
Elachistidae found in Asia and Europe.
Description
The
wingspan is . Adults are on wing from April to May and again from June to July.
The larvae feed on bent (''
Agrostis
''Agrostis'' (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world. It has been bred as a GMO creeping bent grass.
Species
* '' Agrostis aequivalvi'' ...
'' species), common wild oat (''
Avena fatua''), tor-gras (''
Brachypodium pinnatum
''Brachypodium pinnatum'', the heath false brome or tor-grass, is a species of grass with a widespread distribution in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It typically grows in calcareous grassland, and reaches tall. The flowerhead is ...
''), false-brome (''
Brachypodium sylvaticum''), reedgrass (''
Calamagrostis'' species), tufted hairgrass (''
Deschampsia cespitosa''), tall fescue (''
Festuca arundinacea''), wood millet (''
Milium effusum
''Milium effusum'', the American milletgrass or wood millet, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to damp forests of the Holarctic Kingdom.
The Latin specific epithet ''effusum'' means "spreading loosely".
Habitat ...
'') and ''
Poa badensis''. They
mine the leaves of their host plant. Larvae can be found from February to the end of May and again from June to July.
Distribution
It is found from
Scandinavia to
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
and from
Great Britain to
Romania. It is also present on the
Iberian Peninsula and
Russia (
Transbaikalia and western
Siberia).
References
External links
''Elachista stabilella'' at UKmoths
stabilella
Moths described in 1858
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Henry Tibbats Stainton
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