Catoptria verellus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Catoptria
- Species
- Catoptria verellus
- Scientific Name
- Catoptria verellus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Catoptria verellus
Catoptria verellus is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It is found in Europe.
The wingspan is 17–18 mm. The forewings are brown, suffusedly mixed with blackish except on veins and towards costa; anterior half of costa white; an undefined white median streak from base, becoming soon obsolete; second line white, strongly curved and interrupted above middle, indented near dorsum, indentation preceded by an oblique white wedge; cilia rather metallic grey, with three or four slender white bars. Hindwings are light grey.
The moth flies from July to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on mosses on old apple (Malus), plum (Prunus) and poplar (Populus) trees.
...Catoptria verellus in languages:
- Dutch
- Zwartbruine vlakjesmot
- English
- Marbled Grass-veneer
- Finnish
- lehtojuovakoisa
- French
- Crambus enfumé
- Korean
- 얼룩무늬풀명나방
- Lithuanian
- Mažasis samaninukas
- Swedish
- lövskogsgräsmott
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Catoptria acutangulellus
- Catoptria amathusia
- Catoptria apenninica
- Catoptria aurora
- Catoptria biformellus
- Catoptria bolivari
- Catoptria cabardinica
- Catoptria captiva
- Catoptria casalei
- Catoptria casperella
- Catoptria caucasicus
- 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
- Catoptria persephone
- Catoptria petrificella
- Catoptria pinella
- Catoptria profluxella
- Catoptria pyramidellus
- Catoptria radiella
- Catoptria samnitica
- Catoptria satakei
- Catoptria spatulelloides
- Catoptria spatulellus
- Catoptria speculalis
- Catoptria spodiellus
- Catoptria staudingeri
- Catoptria submontivaga
- Catoptria trichostomus
- Catoptria verellus
- Catoptria viridiana
- Catoptria witimella
- Catoptria xerxes
- Catoptria zermattensis































































































































































