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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Elachistidae |
Genus: | Elachista |
Species: | E. canapennella
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Elachista canapennella (
Hübner, 1813)
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Elachista canapennella is a moth of the family Elachistidae found in Europe.
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]
It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Romania and from Ireland to central Russia. [3]
Elachista canapennella | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Elachistidae |
Genus: | Elachista |
Species: | E. canapennella
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Binomial name | |
Elachista canapennella (
Hübner, 1813)
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Synonyms | |
List
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Elachista canapennella is a moth of the family Elachistidae found in Europe.
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]
It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Romania and from Ireland to central Russia. [3]