Elachista fasciola

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|image_caption = Elachista fasciola

|genus = Elachista

|species = fasciola

|authority = Parenti, 1983{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=435340|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015143623/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=435340|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 15, 2012|title=Elachista (Aphelosetia) fasciola Parenti, 1983|work=Fauna Europaea|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|access-date=November 8, 2013}}

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Elachista fasciola is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from Europe (Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy) east through Russia to Japan.{{cite journal|url=http://www.nev.nl/tve/pdf/te0148225.pdf|author=Kazuhiro Sugisima|title= Japanese Elachista studied by Parenti (1983) (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae): The Subgenus Aphelosetia and the Gleichenella-, Tetragonella-, and Bifasciella-Groups|publisher=Systematic Entomology|journal=Hokkaido University|place=Sapporo, Japan}}

The length of the forewings is about {{convert|4|mm}}.

The larvae feed on Achnatherum pekinense, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Calamagrostis arundinacea and Elymus repens. They mine the leaves of their host plant.{{cite web|url= http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/elachista/fasciola/fasciola.htm|title= Elachista fasciola Parenti, 1983|publisher= Bladmineerders.nl|access-date= September 22, 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120927000725/http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/elachista/fasciola/fasciola.htm|archive-date= September 27, 2012|url-status= dead}}