Elachista albidella Nylander, 1848

Elachista albidella Nylander, 1848 View in CoL

Elachista albidella Nylander, 1848: 150 View in CoL . Type locality: Finland, Nylandia, Helsinki (Nylander 1848: 150). Holotype ♀, in MZH.

Aphelosetia rhyncosporella Stainton, 1848: 2165 . Type locality: Great Britain, “North of England, Scotland ”. Undefined number of syntypes, in NHMUK. Synonymized by Wolff (1970: 175).

Poeciloptilia uliginosella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: 310 . Type locality: Switzerland, Zürich (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: 310). Holotype, sex not stated. Deposition unknown. Synonymized by Frey (1859: 281).

Elachista tanyopis Meyrick, 1932b: 218 View in CoL . Type locality: Canada, Ontario, Parry Sound ( Meyrick 1932b: 18). Holotype ♂, in NHMUK.

Elachista tanyopa , incorrect subsequent spelling ( Hodges 1978: pl. 2, fig. 9).

Elachista rhyncosporella: Stainton (1858a: 315) .

Biselachista albidella: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 267) .

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

Distribution: Holarctic. Austria, Canada ( Alberta, Newfoundland, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (European part, Siberia), Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. ( England, Scotland, Wales), U.S.A. ( Michigan).

Larval host plant(s): Trichophorum cespitosum (L). Hartman, Carex riparia Curtis , C. acuta L., C. flacca Schreber , C. panicea L., Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roemer & Schultes, Eriophorum angustifolium Honckeny (all Cyperaceae ) ( Stainton 1858a; Frey 1859; E. Hering 1891; Lhomme 1951; Emmet 1991; Parenti & Varalda 1994).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Hodges (1978), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996), Kaila (1996), Sugisima (1999), Parenti & Pizzolato (2015b).