Elachista apicipunctella Stainton, 1849

Elachista apicipunctella Stainton, 1849: 26 . Type locality: Great Britain (Stainton 1849: 26) . Types not specified.

Poeciloptilia apicipunctella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 301, 309).

Subgenus: Elachista; bifasciella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia (European part, Caucasus, Siberia), Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. (England, Scotland, Wales), Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Agrostis sp., Arrhenaterum elatius (L.) Beauv. Ex J. & C. Presl, Brachypodium sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv., Calamagrostis arundinacea (L.) Roth, Dactylis glomerata (L.), Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv., Elymus caninus (L.) L., Festuca altissima All., F. gigantea (L.) Vill., Glyceria lithuanica (Gorski) Gorski, Holcus sp., Melica nutans L., Milium effusum L., Poa nemoralis L., P. remota Forselles (all Poaceae) (E. Hering 1891; Meyrick 1895; E.M. Hering 1957; Steuer 1976; Parenti & Varalda 1994).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996), Steuer (1976) (larva).