Elachista obliquella Stainton, 1854

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 99-100

Elachista obliquella Stainton, 1854

Elachista obliquella Stainton, 1854: 258 . Type locality: England, near London ( Stainton 1854: 258). Neotype ♂ designated by Kozlov & Kaila (2002: 7), in NHMUK.

Tinea megerlella auct ., nec Hübner, 1810: Pl. 44, fig. 307. Neotype ♀ designated by Kozlov & Kaila (2002: 5). Type locality: Switzerland, Zürich, in NHMUK.

‡ Tinea albinella sensu Haworth, 1828: 581 , nec Linnaeus, 1761. Type lost.

Poeciloptilia megerlella: Herrich-Schäffer (1855: 299, 303).

Svenssonia obliquella: Parenti (2009: 31) .

Subgenus: Aphelosetia ; argentella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia (European part, Caucasus), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. ( England, Wales), Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) Beauv., B. sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv. , Bromus erectus Hudson , B. ramosus Hudson , Calamagrostis sp., Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv., Elymus repens (L.) Gould, Hordelymus europaeus (L.) C. O. Harz, Koeleria sp., Melica uniflora Retz. , Milium effusum L., Poa sp. ( Poaceae ), Carex acuta L., C. elata All. , C. ornithopoda Willd. , C. spicata Hudson , C. sylvatica Hudson (Cyperaceae) ; summarized by Parenti & Varalda (1994).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996), Kozlov & Kaila (2002).