Crombrugghia kollari
Crombrugghia kollari | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Crombrugghia |
Species: | C. kollari |
Binomial name | |
Crombrugghia kollari (Stainton, 1851)[1] | |
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Crombrugghia kollari is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Spain, Italy, France, Austria and Switzerland and has also been recorded from southern Russia and Turkey.[2] It is an Alpine species.
It is a little larger than Crombrugghia tristis. It has a very characteristically grey-whitish colour with some specimens being almost white.[3]
The larvae feed on the leaves of Hieracium amplexicaule.[4] Larvae can be found from the beginning of May to the beginning of June.
References
- ↑ "Crombrugghia kollari". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ↑ Tentative Checklist of the Turkish Lepidoptera
- ↑ "On the Systematics and Origin of the Generic Group oxyptilus Zeller (Lep. Alucitidae)". Biostor.org. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ↑ "Die Raupe und Puppe von Oxyptilus kollari Stt." (PDF). Landes Museum. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
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