Chrysoteuchia culmella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Chrysoteuchia
- Species
- Chrysoteuchia culmella
- Scientific Name
- Chrysoteuchia culmella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Chrysoteuchia culmella, the garden grass-veneer, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Europe.
The wingspan is 18–24 mm. The forewings are brown; a whitish median streak, ending in branches along veins 2-5, often separated by dark fuscous scales; dorsal 2/3 often wholly suffused with whitish-ochreous; a terminal series of black dots; cilia metallic. Hindwings are rather dark grey. The larva is pale pinkish-ochreous; spots brown; head and plate of 2 brown, darker- marked. See also Parsons et al.
The moth flies from June to July depending on the location.
The larvae feed on various grasses.
...Chrysoteuchia culmella in languages:
- Bokmål
- årenebbmott
- Czech
- travařík zahradní
- Danish
- Have-Græsmøl
- Dutch
- Gewone grasmot
- English
- Garden Grass-veneer
- Finnish
- kulmaheinäkoisa
- French
- Crambus des jardins
- German
- Rispengraszünsler
- Japanese
- ツマスジツトガ
- Lithuanian
- Juostuotasis Žolinis Ugniukas
- Polish
- Wachlarzyk ździeblaczek
- Russian
- Травянка соломенная
- Swedish
- trädgårdsgräsmott
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Chrysoteuchia argentistriellus
- Chrysoteuchia culmella
- Chrysoteuchia daisetsuzana
- Chrysoteuchia diplogrammus
- Chrysoteuchia distinctellus
- Chrysoteuchia gregorella
- Chrysoteuchia mandschurica
- Chrysoteuchia moriokensis
- Chrysoteuchia picturatellus
- Chrysoteuchia porcelanella
- Chrysoteuchia porcelanellus
- Chrysoteuchia pseudodiplogrammus
- Chrysoteuchia pyraustoides
- Chrysoteuchia sonobei
- Chrysoteuchia topiarius
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