Elachista elegans Frey, 1859

Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), Zootaxa 4632 (1), pp. 1-231 : 52

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scientific name	Elachista elegans Frey, 1859
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Elachista elegans Frey, 1859 View in CoL

Elachista elegans Frey, 1859: 239 View in CoL . Type locality: Switzerland, Zürich ( Frey 1859: 249). Lectotype ♂ designated by Parenti (1977: 21), in NHMUK.

Subgenus: Elachista View in CoL ; bifasciella View in CoL species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Liechstenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Larval host plant(s): Bromus sp., Calamagrostis sp., C. arundinacea L., C. epigejos (L.) Roth, Dactylis sp., Milium effusum L., Poa sp. (all Poaceae ) ( Frey 1859; Martini 1912b; Huttunen 1980; Ivinskis et al. 1985).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Kaila et al. (2008).

Remarks: Records from Ukraine (Crimea) by Budashkin & Sinev (1991) are misidentifications of E. herrichii Frey, 1851 (Kaila et al. 2008).