''Elachista catalana'' is a
moth of the family
Elachistidae. It is found in
Morocco,
Spain,
France,
Italy,
San Marino and
Croatia.
Adults are large (for ''
Elachista
''Elachista'' is a genus of gelechioid moths described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833. It is the type genus of the grass-miner moth family (Elachistidae). This family is sometimes (in particular in older sources) circumscribed very loo ...
'' species), unicolorous white or creamy white with variably paler or darker grey hindwings.
The larvae feed on ''
Dactylis glomerata''. 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.
Taxonomy
''
Elachista modesta'' was previously treated as a synonym of ''Elachista catalana'', but was recently reinstated as a valid species.
References
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catalana
, Catalana del Prat, Catalana del Prat Leonada, Prat, Buff Catalana
, country = Spain
, distribution =
, standard MAGRAMA, use = dual-purpose
, nickname =
, apa = continental
, aba =
, ee ...
Moths described in 1978
Moths of Europe
Moths of Africa