Eudonia mercurella
- "Phalaena mercurella" redirects here. The species called thus by Zetterstedt in 1839 was actually Eudonia murana.
| Eudonia mercurella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Eudonia |
| Species: | E. mercurella |
| Binomial name | |
| Eudonia mercurella (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Eudonia mercurella is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It is found in Europe, western China, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, and north-western Africa.[1]
The wingspan is 16–19 mm. The moth flies from June to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on various mosses.
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- ↑ Li, W.-c., 2012: One new species of the genus Eudonia Billberg (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 34 (2): 267-269.
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