Elachistidae

38.037 Common Grass-miner Elachista canapennella (Hübner, [1813])

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 4 to 5mm

Habitats: Where the foodplants are present.

Habits: The moth comes to light.

Foodplant: The larva forms a mine on a leaf of Creeping Soft-grass, False Oat-grass, Creeping Bent. It makes a flat whitish linear mine. The larva is pale yellow-grey with a pale brown head. It pupates without a cocoon attached to a grass stem by a silk girdle.

On the European mainland it has also been recorded feeding on Downy Oat-grass, Tufted Hair-grass and meadow-grasses.