Elachista eleochariella Stainton, 1851

Elachista eleochariella Stainton, 1851: 10 . Type locality: U.K., Scotland, Kilmun, Argyll. Syntypes (number undefined in original description), in NHMUK.

Poeciloptilia eleochariella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 302, 310).

Biselachista eleochariella: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 265) .

Subgenus: Elachista; tetragonella species group.

Distribution: Holarctic. Austria, Canada (Alberta, Newfoundland, Labrador, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. (England, Scotland, Wales).

Larval host plant(s): Eriophorum angustifolium Honckeny, Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roemer & Schultes, Carex flacca Schreber, C. panicea L. (Cypereaceae) (E. Hering 1891; Wörz 1957: Ivinskis et al. 1985).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Bland (1996), Kaila (1996), Parenti & Pizzolato (2015b).