Elachista elegans Frey, 1859

Elachista elegans Frey, 1859: 239 . Type locality: Switzerland, Zürich (Frey 1859: 249). Lectotype ♂ designated by Parenti (1977: 21), in NHMUK.

Subgenus: Elachista; bifasciella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Liechstenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Larval host plant(s): Bromus sp., Calamagrostis sp., C. arundinacea L., C. epigejos (L.) Roth, Dactylis sp., Milium effusum L., Poa sp. (all Poaceae) (Frey 1859; Martini 1912b; Huttunen 1980; Ivinskis et al. 1985).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Kaila et al. (2008).

Remarks: Records from Ukraine (Crimea) by Budashkin & Sinev (1991) are misidentifications of E. herrichii Frey, 1851 (Kaila et al. 2008).