Species Details

ABH: 38.022

BF: 594

Family: Elachistidae

Taxon: Elachista gleichenella

=Elachista magnificella

Authority: (Fabricius, 1781)

Vernacular: Twin-barred Sedge-miner

Account: Local in woodland throughout much of the British Isles A fairly distinctive, well-marked, black and white elachistid. Larva mines leaves of Wood-rush and Sedge.

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: 8 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 13 May (2011) — 22 Jun (2015)

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

Foodplant: Carex sp. (a sedge).

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-gleichenella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 4

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2015

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