Crombrugghia tristis explained

Crombrugghia tristis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Benelux, Great Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia.^[1] It is also known from southern Siberia, Asia Minor and central Asia.^[2] The habitat consists of sandy areas overgrown with Hieracium.

The wingspan is 16-, making it the smallest species in the genus Crombrugghia. It is greyish, light-brown coloured.^[3]

The larvae feed on Hieracium echioides, Hieracium umbeliferum, Hieracium dubium, Hieracium cymosum, Hieracium piloselloides, Hieracium fallax, Hieracium pilosella and Hieracium amplexicaule.^[4]

Further reading

• Alipanah. Helen. Gielis. Cees. Sari. Alireza. Sarafrazi. Alimorad. Manzari. Shahab. Phylogenetic relationships in the tribe Oxyptilini (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae, Pterophorinae) based on morphological data of adults. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 163. 2. 2011. 484–547. 0024-4082. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00705.x. free.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Crombrugghia tristis (Zeller, 1841). https://web.archive.org/web/20121014162801/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=438126. dead. October 14, 2012. Fauna Europaea. 21 June 2011.
2. Fazekas . Imre . Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae) . Five new species, distribution records of plume moths from Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Balkans and the Africa (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae) . Folia comloensis . 2003 . 12 . 5–24 . de .
3. Web site: On the Systematics and Origin of the Generic Group oxyptilus Zeller (Lep. Alucitidae). Biostor.org. 21 June 2011. 25 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121025012038/http://biostor.org/reference/1353.text. dead.
4. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pterophoroidea/pterophoridae/pterophorinae/crombrugghia/index.html Crombrugghia at funet