38.026 Elachista kilmunella (Moorland Sedge-miner)
ws: 9-11mm; May-Aug; ?sedges (Carex spp); boggy areas in acid heath and grassland in upland areas throughout Britain.
Elachista kilmunella §2 male
ID: Forewing dark with pale costal and tornal spots, not involving bases of tornal or apical cilia and with other pale markings; pale markings without a metallic sheen; frons dark* > 10 species
White-tipped tegulae are an additional feature of this species, (but I don't know how often this occurs in the other species).
* Although keyed in the group with a dark frons, the frons may not be as dark as other species in this group.
The description in MBGBI3 is as follows: "Head and vertex covered with fuscous-edged ochreous-white scales, frons ochreous-fuscous".
Male genitalia: uncus lobes separated by a U-shaped notch which is broader than an uncus lobe, vinculum strongly produced, aedeagus not notched or pointed at apex with 1 or 2 small thorns.
Female genitalia: antrum very broadly "V"-shaped; signum small-medium-sized, thorny, transverse, elongate-ovoid.
White-tipped tegulae are an additional feature of this species, (but I don't know how often this occurs in the other species).
* Although keyed in the group with a dark frons, the frons may not be as dark as other species in this group.
The description in MBGBI3 is as follows: "Head and vertex covered with fuscous-edged ochreous-white scales, frons ochreous-fuscous".
Male genitalia: uncus lobes separated by a U-shaped notch which is broader than an uncus lobe, vinculum strongly produced, aedeagus not notched or pointed at apex with 1 or 2 small thorns.
Female genitalia: antrum very broadly "V"-shaped; signum small-medium-sized, thorny, transverse, elongate-ovoid.
§1 Cyffdy Farm, Gwynned; 25/06/2010; male; fw 4.4mm
§2 Dock Tarn, Cumbria; 30/06/2014; male; fw 4.8mm; netted by day
§3 Great Calva, Cumbria; 24/06/2019; female; fw 4.0mm; netted by day
All images © Chris Lewis
§2 Dock Tarn, Cumbria; 30/06/2014; male; fw 4.8mm; netted by day
§3 Great Calva, Cumbria; 24/06/2019; female; fw 4.0mm; netted by day
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published March 2011 (§1) | §2 added and text amended 12/07/2014 | §3 added and text amended 19/02/2020
