Elachista festucicolella Zeller, 1853

Elachista festucicolella Zeller, 1853b: 415 . Type locality: Poland, Glogów [as Germany, Glogau]. Lectotype ♂ designated by Parenti (1977: 43), in NHMUK.

Elachista klimeschi Parenti, 1981: 57 . Type locality: Italy, Valle d’Aosta, Cogne, Moline (Parenti 1981: 57). Holotype ♂, in ZSM. Secondary junior homonym of Elachista klimeschi Dufrane, 1957: 3 .

Elachista klimeschiella Parenti, 2002: 151 . Replacement name for Elachista klimeschi Parenti, 1981: 57, nec Dufrane, 1957: 13. Synonymized by Kaila et al. (2015: 530).

Poeciloptilia festucicolella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 302, 313).

Subgenus: Aphelosetia; dispilella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Festuca sp., F. ovina L., F. acuminata Gaudich, F. cinerea Vill., F. rupicola Heuffel (Poaceae) (Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen 1977; Parenti & Varalda 1994).

Figs.: Parenti (2004b), Kaila et al. (2015).