Chrysocrambus linetella explained

Chrysocrambus linetella is a species of moth in the family Crambidae.^[1]

Subspecies

• Chrysocrambus linetella linetella (Europe, Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Turkestan)
• Chrysocrambus linetella caspicus (Caradja, 1910) (Armenia)
• Chrysocrambus linetella pseudocraterellus Bleszynski, 1958 (Iraq, Iran)

Distribution

This species can be found in Great Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania,^[2] Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, and Turkmenistan.^[3]

Description

The wingspan is 20–27 mm.^[4] The basic color of the upperside forewings is whitish, with several longitudinal brown lines and two transverse brown lines.

It is very similar to Chrysocrambus craterella, but it can be distinguished by the less curved course of the median line and by the lack at the apex of the forewings of a double soft brown line. It could be overlooked as Thisanotia chrysonuchella.^[5]

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to the end of August in one generation per year.^[6] The larvae feed on roots of grasses (Poaceae species).^[7]

Bibliography

• Bassi, G. 1985: Contributo allo studio delle Crambinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae). I: Specie mediterranee nuove o interessanti. – Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino 3 (1): 73–78.
• Bleszynski, S. 1958: Studies on the Crambidae (Lepidoptera). Part XVIII. Revision of the genus Chrysocrambus Blesz. – Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 2 (34): 845–885.
• Bradley, J.D.Checklist of Lepidoptera Recorded from The British Isles, Second Edition (Revised) (2000)
• Goater, B. – British Pyralid Moths – A Guide to their Identification (1986)
• Heppner, J. B. (1982): Dates of selected Lepidoptera literature for the western hemisphere fauna. — Journal of the Lepidopterologists' Society 36 (2): 87–111.

External links

• Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
• Lepiforum.de

Notes and References

1. Web site: GlobIZ search . Global Information System on Pyraloidea . 2012-03-18 .
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233921/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=443134 Fauna Europaea
3. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/crambidae/crambinae/chrysocrambus/index.html Chrysocrambus at funet
4. https://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=1319 UKmoths
5. http://www.hantsmoths.org.uk/species/1319.php Hants Moths
6. Web site: LOT Moths and Butterflies . 2012-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130826114935/http://www.lotmoths.com/species/species.php?frmSpeciesID=753 . 2013-08-26 . dead .
7. http://www.lepinet.fr/especes/nation/lep/?e=l.html&id=24080 Lepi Net