Species Details

ABH: 38.016

BF: 621

Family: Elachistidae

Taxon: Elachista subalbidella

Authority: Schläger, 1847

Vernacular: Buff Grass-miner

Account: Local on moorland and heathland throughout much of the British Isles A fairly distinctive, plain, ochreous-yellow moth. Larva mines leaves of Purple Moor-grass, False-brome and False Oat-grass.

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: 10 — 13 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 26 May (2010) — 29 May (2005)

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

Foodplant: Molinia caerulea (Purple Moor-grass).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/elachista-subalbidella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2005

Latest Year: 2010

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