Elachista zonulae

{{short description|Species of moth}}

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|genus = Elachista

|species = zonulae

|authority = Sruoga, 1992{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=435547|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015080231/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=435547|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 15, 2012|title=Elachista (Elachista) zonulae Sruoga, 1992|publisher=Fauna Europaea|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|access-date=November 12, 2013}}

|synonyms = *Biselachista zonulae

}}

Elachista zonulae is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is found in the Alps, the Tatra Mountains in Poland, the Tian Shan Mountains in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and the Altai Mountains in Siberia.{{cite journal|url=http://www.soceurlep.eu/tl_files/pdf_nota_l/nota_27_217_237.pdf |author=Lauri Kaila & Piero Giuseppe Varalda |title=The Elachista juliensis complex revisited (Elachistidae) |publisher=Zoological Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History|journal=University of Helsinki |volume=27 |pages=217–237 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320021215/http://www.soceurlep.eu/tl_files/pdf_nota_l/nota_27_217_237.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-20 }}

There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Carex sempervirens and Carex firma. They mine the leaves of their host plant.{{cite web|url=http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/elachista/zonulae/zonulae.htm|title=Elachista zonulae (Sruoga, 1992)|publisher=Bladmineerders.nl|access-date=September 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926092254/http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/elachista/zonulae/zonulae.htm|archive-date=September 26, 2012|url-status=dead}} Full-grown larvae are {{convert|4.5|-|5.5|mm}} long.{{cite journal|url=http://www.entomologicafennica.org/Volume20/abstracts20_239.htm|author=Baran, T|year=2009|title=The immature stages of Elachista zonulae (Sruoga, 1992) (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae)|publisher=Entomol. Fennica|volume=20|pages=239–244}}