Elachista subocellea (Stephens, 1834)
brown-barred dwarf
mine
At first a narrow ascending corridor. The direction reverses and the mine develops into a broad, greenish, inconspicuous blotch, reminding of a tentiform mine, 5-8 cm long. Pupation external.
host plants
Poaceae, oligophagous
Brachypodium pinnatum, sylvaticum; Holcus lanatus; Phleum phleoides.
Schütze (1931a) also mentions Festuca as a host plant, but this is not confirmed by later authors.
phenology
Larvae in end-April – early June (Bland, 1996a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (Phegea, 2009).
NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2009).
LUX recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
distribution within Europe
From Fennoscandia to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Romania, and from Ireland to Poland (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
larva
Dull green, head and prothoracic shield light brown. Prothoracic shield divided in two narrow elongate, distally enlarged, slerites (Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen, 1977a; Bland, 1996a).
synonyms
Elachista disertella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855).
references
Baldizzone (2004a), Baldizzone & scalercio (2018a), Baran, Mazurkiewicz & Pałka (2007a), Bidzilya, Budashkin & Zhakov (2016a), Bland (1996a), Buszko (1990a), Hering (1957a), Huisman & Koster (1994a), Kaila, Nupponen, Junnilainen, ao (2003a), Kuchlein & de Vos (1999a), Martini (1912c), Parenti & Domínguez (1995a). Parenti & Pizzolato (2015b), Parenti & Varalda (1994a), De Prins (1998a), Robbins (1991a), Sruoga & Ivinskis (2005a), Schütze (1931a), Szőcs (1977a, 1981a), Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977a), Vávra (2016a), Wörz (1957a).