Catoptria falsella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Catoptria
- Species
- Catoptria falsella
- Scientific Name
- Catoptria falsella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Catoptria falsella
Catoptria falsella, the chequered grass-veneer, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae.
It is found in Europe. It is nocturnal.
The wingspan is 18–24 mm. (or a forewing length of 8 to 9 mm.The ground colour of the forewings is white, brown and yellowish-brown often dusted with stripes of brown. A narrow white longitudinal line extending from the base of the wing reaches past the middle of the wing. In the outer area, just before the margin, there is a strongly bulged transverse line with a point in the recess to the inner edge. The transverse line is crossed in the bulge by three thin dark longitudinal lines starting from the tip of the white longitudinal line. The hind wings are brown-grey. The caterpillars are greenish and have a brownish head and a brownish neck shield.
The moth flies from June to September depending on the location.
The larvae feed on various mosses, especially Tortula muralis.
...Catoptria falsella in languages:
- Bokmål
- klippenebbmott
- Czech
- travařík károvaný
- Dutch
- Drietandvlakjesmot
- English
- Chequered Grass-veneer
- Finnish
- metsäjuovakoisa
- French
- Crambus douteux
- Hungarian
- hálós fűgyökérmoly
- Lithuanian
- Margasis samaninukas
- Russian
- Травянка фальшивая
- Swedish
- hällmarksgräsmott
- Ukrainian
- Вогнівка крученозубкова
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Parent Taxon
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- Catoptria captiva
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- Catoptria casperella
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- Catoptria ciliciellus
- Catoptria colchicellus
- Catoptria combinella
- Catoptria conchella
- Catoptria confusellus
- Catoptria corsicellus
- Catoptria daghestanica
- Catoptria digitellus
- Catoptria dimorphellus
- Catoptria domaviellus
- Catoptria europaeica
- Catoptria falsella
- Catoptria fenestratellus
- Catoptria fibigeri
- Catoptria fulgidella
- Catoptria furcatella
- Catoptria furciferalis
- Catoptria gozmanyi
- Catoptria hannemanni
- Catoptria harutai
- Catoptria incertellus
- Catoptria kasyi
- Catoptria laevigatellus
- Catoptria languidella
- Catoptria languidellus
- Catoptria latiradiellus
- Catoptria luctiferella
- Catoptria lythargyrella
- Catoptria maculalis
- Catoptria margaritella
- Catoptria mienshani
- Catoptria montivaga
- Catoptria muellerrutzi
- Catoptria munroeella
- Catoptria myella
- Catoptria mytilella
- Catoptria nana
- Catoptria olympica
- Catoptria oregonicus
- Catoptria orientellus
- Catoptria orobiella
- Catoptria osthelderi
- Catoptria pauperellus
- Catoptria permiacus
- Catoptria permiscus
- Catoptria permutatellus
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- Catoptria petrificella
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- Catoptria speculalis
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