Crombrugghia kollari

Crombrugghia kollari
Crombrugghia kollari
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Crombrugghia
Species: C. kollari
Binomial name
Crombrugghia kollari
(Stainton, 1851)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pterophorus kollari Stainton, 1851
  • Oxyptilus kollari

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 is very characteristically grey-whitish coloured, 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

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Tentative Checklist of the Turkish Lepidoptera
  3. ^ On the Systematics and Origin of the Generic Group oxyptilus Zeller (Lep. Alucitidae)
  4. ^ Die Raupe und Puppe von Oxyptilus kollari Stt.
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