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

Chrysocrambus linetella
Chrysocrambus linetella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Subfamily:	Crambinae
Tribe:	Crambini
Genus:	Chrysocrambus
Species:	C. linetella
Binomial name
Chrysocrambus linetella (Fabricius, 1781)
Synonyms
List Tinea linetella Fabricius, 1781 Chrysocrambus cassentiniellus (Herrich-Schaffer, 1848) Chrysocrambus linetellus Crambus craterellus var. caspicus Caradja, 1910 Crambus cassentiniellus Herrich-Schäffer, 1848 Crambus cassentiniellus f. distinctus Müller-Rutz, 1920 Crambus cassentiniellus Zeller, 1849 Crambus cassentiniellus f. marioni Dufrane, 1960 Crambus chrysocrossis Meyrick, 1936 Crambus craterellus f. zonatellus Gelin & Lucas, 1914 Tinea lineatus Fabricius, 1798 Chrysocrambus linetella pseudocraterellus Bleszynski, 1958 Chrysocrambus bleszynskii Amsel, 1959

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 and 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]

References

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

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