Augasma aeratella

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| taxon = Augasma aeratella

| authority = (Zeller, 1839)[https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/455/45513705.pdf Catalogo Mundial Sistematico y de Distribucion de la Familia Coleophoridae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924083736/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=45513705 |date=2012-09-24 }}

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• Elachista aeratella Zeller, 1839

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Augasma aeratella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in most of Europe (except most Fennoscandia and parts of the Balkan Peninsula). The habitat consists of open landscapes of forest-steppe and steppe biotopes.

Image:Augasma aeratella a sprig of Polygonim aviculare with pod-like galls caused by larva.JPG with pod-like galls caused by larva]]

Image:Augasma aeratella larva.JPG

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. Adults are on wing from June to July in one generation per year.{{Cite web |url=http://www.suffolkmoths.org.uk/cgi-bin/mos/account.cgi?code=0486 |title=The Moths of Suffolk |access-date=2011-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314161747/http://www.suffolkmoths.org.uk/cgi-bin/mos/account.cgi?code=0486 |archive-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead }}

The larva live in fusiform galls on the stems of Polygonum aviculare, Polygonum arenarium and Polygonum lapathifolium. They can be found from late June to mid-August.[http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ENT_0019_0033-0044.pdf The Casebearers of the Volga-Ural inter-river region (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae)]