Cosmopterix crassicervicella

Cosmopterix crassicervicella is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of the splendor butterfly ( Cosmopterigidae ).

• 3.1 systematics

Features

The moths reach a wingspan of 8-9 millimeters. The sensors have a broken white line that extends from the base to 1 /3 of the probe length. Two white portions of two segments are located at 3/ 4 of the probe length. They are separated by two brown segments. The white Subapikalring consists of three segments. The forewings are brown. The basal region is drawn with five narrow white lines. The Costallinie ranges from the first third of the basal region to the inner. shiny metallic bonding. Which begins at the vane base Subcostallinie and is curved inward. The center line is short and is through the anal cleft. The Subdorsallinie is slightly longer than the center line and further away from the wing base. The Dorsallinie extends from the wing base to above the wing center out. There is a white line that is narrow in the middle and can also be interrupted at the wing tip. The fringe scales are brown. The hind wings are gray-brown. The abdomen is dorsally brown, the segments 2 to 5 are dorsal ocher yellow to orange brown.

In the males the right brachium is hook-shaped and has a rounded tip. It is about eight times longer than the left. The Valven are nearly triangular with a concave top. The Caudalrand is slightly convex. The Valvellae are slim and tapered near the base. They are curved and have a sharp tip. The aedeagus is very slim and bottle-shaped. The front part is slightly curved and has a sharp point. The rear section is very short and widens distally slightly.

In females, the rear end of the 7th sternite is very shallow arc. The eighth segment is three times as wide as long. The ostium is sclerotized rounded and crescent- shaped. Sterigma the oval. The ductus bursae is one and a half times as long as the corpus bursae. The corpus bursae is ovate, the signals are either very small or missing.

Similar Species

Cosmopterix crassicervicella differs from Cosmopterix attenuatella by the shorter white line on the sensors, the wider front wings ( eight times as long as wide ) and the short Costallinie.

Dissemination

The species is in Southern Europe ( Spain, Portugal, France, Sicily, Greece, Crete), Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, North Africa, the Canary Islands and is home to the Middle East.

Biology

The caterpillars develop on Zypergräsern ( Cyperus ) and nate in the leaves, where the entire leaf is taken up to the top of the mine. The caterpillars create a silky burrow to hide there during the feeding breaks. The lead is folded at this point. They pupate within the mine in a cocoon chamber, whereby the sheet is folded. It makes two generations per year, the moths fly from mid-April to mid-June and from late August to late October.

System

There are known the following synonyms:

• Cosmopteryx crassicervicella Chrétien, 1896
• Cosmopteryx flavipes Turati, 1930
• Cosmopteryx superba Gozmány, 1960
• Cosmopteryx dalii Agenjo, 1981

Documents

• Splendor falter
• Cosmopterigidae