Crambidae : Crambinae
Chrysocrambus craterella
CHRYSOCRAMBUS craterella (Scopoli, 1763)
Chrysocrambus craterella
CHRYSOCRAMBUS craterella (Scopoli, 1763)
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Life Cycle Guide - Europe - Aduly Only
Description
Wingspan: 18 - 24mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.Channel Is.Corsica,Crete,Cyprus,Denmark,Estonia,Finland, Latvia, Madeira,Malta,Lithuania,Luxembourg,North Aegean Is,Norway,Portugal,Sardinia,Sicily,Sweden and The Netherlands) : almost whole of temperate Palaearctic region : Middle East : Turkey
UK Distribution: Only recorded twice in 19th century from Kent & Surrey
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Sun Catching Grassy Hilsides
Similar Species -
Observations: A very rare migrant to Britain, it has only been recorded twice back in the 19th century where one was seen in Kent and the other Surrey.
Very similar to C.linetella, the two can only reliably be separated through genitalia examination although with this moth it can be identified by the two brown lines adjacent to the apex curving in and joining before the postmedian line. (see photo)
The forewing is creamy yellow towards golden yellow with longitudinal and cross lines brown. Hindwings are grey.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.Channel Is.Corsica,Crete,Cyprus,Denmark,Estonia,Finland, Latvia, Madeira,Malta,Lithuania,Luxembourg,North Aegean Is,Norway,Portugal,Sardinia,Sicily,Sweden and The Netherlands) : almost whole of temperate Palaearctic region : Middle East : Turkey
UK Distribution: Only recorded twice in 19th century from Kent & Surrey
UK Conservation Status -
- Migrant
- Least Concern
- Phalaena craterella (Scopoli, 1763)
- Type Species - Chrysocrambus
- Crambus cassentiniellus Herrich-Schäffer, 1848
- Croatia
Habitat: Sun Catching Grassy Hilsides
Similar Species -
- Chrysocrambus linetella (Fabricius, 1781)
Observations: A very rare migrant to Britain, it has only been recorded twice back in the 19th century where one was seen in Kent and the other Surrey.
Very similar to C.linetella, the two can only reliably be separated through genitalia examination although with this moth it can be identified by the two brown lines adjacent to the apex curving in and joining before the postmedian line. (see photo)
The forewing is creamy yellow towards golden yellow with longitudinal and cross lines brown. Hindwings are grey.
Photo Gallery
Larval Food Plants Worldwide
Larva feeds on various grasses of the Poaceae : Gramineae Family
Larva feeds on various grasses of the Poaceae : Gramineae Family
Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Pyraloidea Crambidae Crambinae CHRYSOCRAMBUS Bleszynski 1957 Chrysocrambus craterella (Scopoli, 1763) - Crambus cassentiniellus Herrich-Schäffer, 1848 - PHALAENA craterella (Scopoli, 1763) = Chrysocrambus craterellus (Scopoli, 1763) - Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana. - pp. [1-35], 1-420, [1]. Vindobonae. (Trattner) : Title Page : p.246 - n.627 - Croatia - C.c. defessellus Toll, 1947 - sooty toned - Turkey C. c. abruzzellus Bleszynski, 1958 - Italy C. c. stachiellus (Toll, 1938) - Ukraine (Podolia) C. c. libani Bleszynski, 1958 - Lebanon - C.c.f.alpinus Bleszynski, 1958 - light yellow white - south French Alps |