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Elachista canapennella is a moth of the family Elachistidae found in Europe.

Elachista canapennella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Elachistidae
Genus:	Elachista
Species:	E. canapennella
Binomial name
Elachista canapennella (Hübner, 1813)
Synonyms
List Tinea canapennella Hübner, 1813 Tinea pulchella Haworth, 1828 Elachista pulchella (Haworth, 1828) Poeciloptilia obscurella Stainton, 1849 Poeciloptilia incanella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 Elachista incanella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) Elachista subobscurella Doubleday, 1859 Poeciloptilia montanella Wocke, 1862 Elachista ranenensis Strand, 1919 Elachista albimarginella Hering, 1924 Elachista postremella Dufrane, 1957

Description

The wingspan is 8–10 millimetres (0.31–0.39 in).[1] The head is grey, face whitish. Forewings in male pale grey irrorated with black, in female blackish except on basal area; a somewhat oblique fascia before middle, a tornal spot, and triangular costal spot somewhat beyond it in male very indistinct, whitish, almost obsolete, in female broader, white, conspicuous. Hindwings are grey. The larva is pale yellowish-grey ; head pale brown.[2]

Adults are on wing from April to June and from July to September. There are two generations per year.

The larvae feed on creeping bent (Agrostis stolonifera), false oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius), Avenula pubescens, tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia cespitosa), fescue (Festuca species), creeping soft grass (Holcus mollis) and meadow-grass (Poa). They mine the leaves of their host. The pupation takes place outside the mine.[3]

Distribution

It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Romania and from Ireland to central Russia.[3]

References

External links

• Bladmineerders.nl

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