Elachista rudectella

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|genus = Elachista

|species = rudectella

|authority = Stainton, 1851{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=435411|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015081432/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=435411|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 15, 2012|title=Elachista (Aphelosetia) rudectella Stainton. 1851|publisher=Fauna Europaea|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|access-date=November 18, 2013}}

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Elachista rudectella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from Germany to Italy, Greece and Romania. It is also found in Russia.

The larvae feed on Phleum phleoides. They mine the leaves of their host plant.{{cite web|url=http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/elachista/rudectella/rudectella.htm|title=Elachista rudectella Stainton. 1851|publisher=Bladmineerders.nl|access-date=September 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926092506/http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/elachista/rudectella/rudectella.htm|archive-date=September 26, 2012|url-status=dead}}