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Catapterix crimaea

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Species of moth

Catapterix crimaea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Acanthopteroctetidae
Genus: Catapterix
Species: C. crimaea
Binomial name
Catapterix crimaea
Zagulajev & Sinev, 1988

Catapterix crimaea is a moth of the family Acanthopteroctetidae and type species of the genus Catapterix. It was described in 1988 from the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine, and was in 2016 first recorded from southern France. From its description in 1988 up until the description of Catapterix tianshanica in 2016, Catapterix crimaea was considered the sole species of its genus.

Description

Adult males have a wing span of 5.5 to 6.5 mm, with elongated fore- and hindwings the former of which are gold-brown in colour and the latter grey. The head is forward-projected and covered in long, golden brown hairscales, with simple antennae of about 3⁄5 of the forewing length. The thorax is gold-brown, the legs brown.

No female specimens have so far been described.

References

  1. ^ "Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details". www.faunaeur.org. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  2. "CATAPTERIX - Butterflies and Moths of the World". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. ^ Nel, J.; Varenne, T.; van Nieukerken, Erik (1 January 2016). "Découverte en France d'un lépidoptère "primitif", Catapterix crimaea Zagulajev & Sinev, 1988 (Lepidoptera, Neopseustoidea, Acanthopteroctetidae)". Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (in French). XXV (3): 153–156. ISSN 1288-5509.
  4. Mey, Wolfram; Rutjan, Evgeniy (28 September 2016). "Catapterix tianshanica sp. n. – the second species of the genus from the Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Acanthopteroctetidae)". Nota Lepidopterologica. 39 (2): 145–150. doi:10.3897/nl.39.9882. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
Taxon identifiers
Catapterix crimaea


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