Elachista canapennella (Hübner, 1813)

Tinea canapennella Hübner, 1813: pl. 47, fig. 327, p. 427). Type locality: [Europe].

Elachista canapennella: Schnack (1985: 29) .

Tinea pulchella Haworth, 1828: 582 . Type locality: [England]. Holotype ♀, in NHMUK. Junior homonym of Tinea pulchella Fabricius, 1794; Schnack (1985: 29).

Elachista canifoliella Treitschke, 1833: 178 . Type (s) in HNHM. Synonymized by Schnack (1985: 29).

Elachista salicis Tengström, 1848: 149 . Type localities: Finland, N, Porvoo [as Borgå], Helsinki [as Helsingfors], Kokkola [as G:la Carleby] and Oulu [as Uleåborg]. Undefined number of syntypes, not traced. Synonymized by Schnack (1985: 29).

Elachista obscurella Stainton, 1849: 26 . Type locality: Great Britain (Stainton 1849: 26). Syntypes in NHMUK. Synonymized by Janmoulle (1949: 122).

Poeciloptilia incanella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: 301, 308. Type locality: [Austria, Wien; Switzerland]. Lectotype ♂ designated by Wolff (1970: 174), in ZMHB. Synonymized [with E. pulchella] by Wolff (1970: 173).

Elachista griseipunctella Bruand, 1859: 688 . Type locality: [Europe]. Bruand’s Elachista collection lost; identity based on Leraut (1997: 107).

‡ Elachista subobscurella Doubleday, 1859: 34 . Unavailable, not accompanied by a description.

Poeciloptilia montanella Wocke, 1862: 247 . Type locality: Norway, Bergen (Wocke 1862: 248). Lectotype ♂ desig- nated by Traugott-Olsen (1974: 263), in ZMHB. Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen (1974: 263).

Elachista ranenensis Strand, 1919: 123 . Type locality: Norway, Ranen, Hemnesberget. Holotype ♂, in ZMHB. Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 95).

Elachista albimarginella E.M. Hering, 1924: 78 . Type locality: “ Finland ”, Karelia Ladogensis, Sortavala [now Russia]. Holotype ♀, in MZH. Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 95).

Elachista postremella Dufrane, 1957: 11 . Type locality: Belgium, Ciply (Dufrane 1957: 13). Holotype ♂, in KBIN. Synonymized by Janmoulle (1962: 1).

Poeciloptilia pulchella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 300, 306).

Subgenus: Elachista; bifasciella species group.

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

Larval host plant(s): Agrostis stolonifera L., Arrhenaterum elatius (L.) Beuv. Ex J. & C. Presl, Avenula pubescens (Hudson) Dumort., Dactylis glomerata L., Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv., Holcus mollis L., Poa sp. (all Poaceae) (Stainton 1858b; Frey 1880; E.M. Hering 1957; Ivinskis et al. 1985; Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen 1977; Huttunen 1980; Parenti & Varalda 1994; Baran 2005).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977, as E. pulchella), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996).