Evergestis frumentalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Evergestis
- Species
- Evergestis frumentalis
- Scientific Name
- Evergestis frumentalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Evergestis frumentalis
Evergestis frumentalis is a moth of the family Crambidae. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula through southern and central Europe and southern Fennoscandia to central Asia and southern Siberia. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761.
The wingspan is 29–35 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing in April and August.
The larvae feed on Descourainia sophia, Sisymbrium, Sinapis (including S. arvensis) and Isatis (including I. tinctoria) species. The larvae of the second generation overwinter in a cocoon in the soil.
...Evergestis frumentalis in languages:
- Czech
- zavíječ zdobený
- Danish
- Sennepshalvmøl
- Finnish
- etelänkaalikoisa
- French
- Evergète de la Moutarde
- Russian
- Мотылёк крестоцветный
- Swedish
- flammigt senapsmott
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Evergestis aegyptiacalis
- Evergestis aenealis
- Evergestis africalis
- Evergestis alborivulalis
- Evergestis anartalis
- Evergestis angustalis
- Evergestis antofagastalis
- Evergestis aridalis
- Evergestis atrapuncta
- Evergestis borregalis
- Evergestis caesialis
- Evergestis comstocki
- Evergestis consimilis
- Evergestis desertalis
- Evergestis dilutalis
- Evergestis dumerlei
- Evergestis dusmeti
- Evergestis eurekalis
- Evergestis extimalis
- Evergestis ferrealis
- Evergestis forficalis
- Evergestis frumentalis
- Evergestis funalis
- Evergestis grummi
- Evergestis holophaealis
- Evergestis infirmalis
- Evergestis isatidalis
- Evergestis junctalis
- Evergestis lichenalis
- Evergestis limbata
- Evergestis lunulalis
- Evergestis lupalis
- Evergestis manglisalis
- Evergestis marionalis
- Evergestis marocana
- Evergestis merceti
- Evergestis montis
- Evergestis mundalis
- Evergestis nicolasi
- Evergestis nolentis
- Evergestis nomadalis
- Evergestis obliqualis
- Evergestis obscuralis
- Evergestis orientalis
- Evergestis pallidata
- Evergestis palousalis
- Evergestis pechi
- Evergestis perobliqualis
- Evergestis placens
- Evergestis plumbofascialis
- Evergestis politalis
- Evergestis rimosalis
- Evergestis scopicalis
- Evergestis segetalis
- Evergestis serratalis
- Evergestis simulatilis
- Evergestis sophialis
- Evergestis sorhageni
- Evergestis spiniferalis
- Evergestis straminalis
- Evergestis subfuscalis
- Evergestis subterminalis
- Evergestis triangulalis
- Evergestis umbrosalis
- Evergestis unimacula
- Evergestis vinctalis