Species Detail - Silver Grass-miner (Elachista argentella) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Microlepidoptera collections (National Museum of Ireland)".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Elachista argentella
Silver Grass-miner
NHMSYS0000502296
RecommendedWell-formed
Elachista argentella Clerck, Elachista cygnipennella (Hübner, 1796), Elachista cygnipennis (Haworth, 1828), Elachista semialbella (Stephens, 1834), Swan-feather Dwarf
N/A
elarg
(Clerck, 1759)
Insect - moth
Species
24
13
9
09/05/1890
25/05/1980
24 April (recorded in 2011)
19 August (recorded in 2012)
National Museum of Ireland, Microlepidoptera collections (National Museum of Ireland), National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Silver Grass-miner (Elachista argentella), accessed 18 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/51/Species/81491>