Elachista adscitella Stainton, 1851

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Elachista adscitella Stainton, 1851

Elachista adscitella Stainton, 1851: 10 . Type locality: [ Great Britain]. Holotype ♂, in Yorkshire Museum, Eng- land.

Elachista abruptella Stainton, 1854: 258 . Type locality: [ England]. Two syntypes, in YMUK. Synonymized by Stainton (1858b: 64); see Remarks.

Elachista alpella Krone, 1909: 129 . Type locality: Austria, Schneeberg ( Krone 1909: 129). Lectotype ♂ designated by Gaedike (1975: 246), in HNHM. Synonymized by Gaedike (1975: 246).

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

Svenssonia adscitella: Parenti (2009: 24) .

Subgenus: Aphelosetia ; argentella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechstenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (European part, Caucasus, southern Siberia, E. Russia), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. ( England, Wales), Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Brachypodium sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv. , Calamagrostis arundinacea (L.) Roth, C. hakonensis Franch. & Sav. , C. langsdorffii (Link) Trin. , Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv., Elymus caninus (L.) L., E. mollis R.Br. , Festuca altissima All. , F. drymeja Mert. & Koch , F. gigantea (L.) Vill., Koeleria cristata Pers , Melica nutans L., M. uniflora Retz , Milium effusum L., Poa chaixii Vill. , P. remota Forselles , Sesleria albicans Kit. ex Schultes , S. argentea (Savi) Savi , S. caerulea (L.) Ard. (sensu lato), S. sadlerana Janka (all Poaceae ); Carex lyngbyei Hornem (Cyperaceae) ( Parenti & Varalda 1994; Stainton 1858b; Steuer 1976; Sugisima 2005c).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977, as E. revinctella ), Parenti (1992), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996), Sugisima (2005d).

Remarks: Host plants records from Cyperaceae should be verified. Stainton (1858a: 330) considered E. abruptella Stainton, 1854 to be a synonym of E. adscitella . This synonymy was suggested when the taxonomy of this species complex was not known; therefore this synonymy should be considered with caution (see Bradley 1963: 158) until the types have been examined.