Elachista bedellella (Sircom, 1848)
[Lepidoptera: Elachistidae]


Microsetia bedellella Sircom, 1848. Zoologist 6: 2037.
Elachista bedellella
(Sircom, 1848).


Leaf-mine: Blotch in the leaf tip; the upper side is practically flat, the lower side can turn somewhat to purple. The larva may mine 2-3 leaves (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Larva young yellowish white, later grey green; head light brown; pronotum with two parallel length lines, slightly widening rearwards and divided by a narrow uncoloured stripe (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Pupa: Details unknown.

Adult: Not illustrated in UKMoths (check for update). The genitalia are not illustrated by the Lepidoptera Dissection Group (check for update).

Hosts in Britain:

Poaceae      
Avenula pratense Meadow Oat-grass Pitkin and Plant

Hosts elsewhere:

Poaceae      
Arrhenatherum elatius False Oat-grass Bladmineerders van Europa
Avena     Bladmineerders van Europa
Avenula pratense Meadow Oat-grass

Bladmineerders van Europa

Festuca ovina Sheep's-fescue Bladmineerders van Europa
Phleum     Bladmineerders van Europa
Poa nemoralis Wood Meadow-grass Bladmineerders van Europa
Poa trivialis Rough Meadow-grass Bladmineerders van Europa

Time of year - larvae: June-July (Bland, 1996a).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea) including Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, South Wiltshire and Stafford (NBN Gateway - N.B. includes Watsonian Vice Counties having publicly available records that fall within or overlap the vice county border at 10km resolution or better i.e. a record for a vice county may relate to an adjacent vice county - for included datasets see NBN Grid map below).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia - East, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden and Switzerland (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

NBN interactive distribution map(s) of known host species in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere:

Arrhenatherum elatius, Festuca ovina, Avenula pratensis, Poa nemoralis, Poa trivialis

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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