Elachista nitidulella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)

Poeciloptilia nitidulella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: 302, 314. Type locality: Austria, Wien, Switzerland. Identity based on a supposed syntype ♂ without locality data, in ZMHB, examined by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 108).

Elachista nitidulella: Stainton (1858a: 321) .

‡ Elachista nitidutella; misspelling (Frey 1866: 138).

Subgenus: Aphelosetia; dispilella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia (European part), Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Festuca rupicola Heuffel (Poaceae) (Deschka 1969).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Traugott-Olsen (1990a), Biesenbaum (1995).