Species Details

ABH: 38.015

BF: 620

Family: Elachistidae

Taxon: Elachista gangabella

=Elachista taeniatella

Authority: Zeller, 1850

Vernacular: Yellow-barred Grass-miner

Account: Local in woodland in southern England and Wales, rare elsewhere. Very sparsely, but widely, distributed across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Wingspan 9-10 mm. Distinguished from all other unifasciate Elachista species by the dark apical cilia on the forewing (MBGBI Vol 3). Larva mines leaves of Cock's-foot and False-brome.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 9 — 10 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 14 May (2016) — 14 Jun (2009)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Brachypodium sylvaticum (False-brome), Dactylis sp.

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/elachista-gangabella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 7

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2003

Latest Year: 2017

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