Elachista cingillella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)

Poeciloptilia cingillella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: 299, 303. Type locality: Austria, Lauerwald, near Wien. Lectotype ♂, designated by Bradley (1963: 160), in ZMHB.

Elachista cingillella: Frey (1859: 258, as cingilella).

Elachista densicornella Hodgkinson, 1879: 56 . Type locality: England, Cumbria, Grange-over-Sands (Hodgkinson 1879: 56). Lectotype ♂ designated by Bradley (1963: 161), in NHMUK.

Svenssonia cingillella: Parenti (2009: 26) .

‡ Elachista cingilella; misspelling (Frey 1859: 258; Doubleday 1859: 34).

‡ Elachista densicornuella; misspelling (Bradley 1963: 161).

Subgenus: Aphelosetia; argentella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia (European part, E. Russia), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. (England), Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) Beauv., B. sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv., Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv. (all Poaceae) (Sippola 2004; Baran 2005; Parenti 2005). Parenti & Varalda (1994) list the following host plants for E. cingillella which may be attributable partly or entirely to E. metella Kaila: Bromus erectus Hudson, Dicanthium ischaemum (L.) Roberty and Milium effusum L. ( Poaceae).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996), Kaila & Junnilainen (2002), Sugisima (2005c).