Elachista poae Stainton, 1855

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Elachista poae Stainton, 1855

Elachista poae Stainton, 1855: 69 . Type locality: England, Essex, Southend, Greenwich ( Stainton 1855: 69). Syntypes: not stated, in NHMUK .

‡ Elachista poella Doubleday, 1859: 34 . Unavailable, not accompanied by a description.

Elachista poella Morris, 1870: 214 . Type locality: England, Surroundings of London. Type (s) probably lost. See Remarks.

Subgenus: Elachista ; bifasciella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia (European part), Slovakia, Sweden, U.K. ( England, Scotland, Wales).

Larval host plant(s): Glyceria maxima (Hartman) Holmberg (Poaecae) ( Stainton 1858b; E.M. Hering 1951).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996).

Remarks: Morris (1870: 214) validated the name poella . However, he followed Doubleday (1859: 34) in regards to the identity of the species. Doubleday, in turn, gave poae as a ‘synonym’ for poella . Elachista poae Stainton, 1855: 69 , however, is the older name for the taxon, and poella Morris is thus a junior synonym.