Crinopteryx familiella
Crinopteryx familiella the only species of the genus Crinopteryx, in turn, is the only one of butterfly family Crinopterygidae. The animals are known only from the south of France and Sicily.
Features
The small moths have a forewing length of 3 to 3.5 millimeters. Her head is rough everywhere and bears hair-like ( piliforme ) scales. The compound eyes are slightly regressed. The sensors have about 60 % of the length of the forewing. They are easy beschuppt. The flagellum is filiform. The labrum and the Pilifer are regressed. The tiny mandibles have about one third the length of the first segment of the Maxillarpalpen. The short Haustellum is unbeschuppt and about half as wide as the head. The Maxillarpalpen are four-to five-membered. You are strongly curved and have a tiny tip member which also is sometimes lacking. The labial palps are tripartite and bear erect bristles from the second segment. The lateral extensions of the lateral cervical sclerites are broadly triangular. The front edge of the anteromedial extension ( APM ) of the Metafurca is wide and flared. The dorsal apophysis is moderately short and without arms derived. The forewings are narrow. The radial artery has five, the median vein has three separate branches. The base of the Media Core is easy on both pairs of wings and is located within the cell. The wing veins 1A 2A are fully grown and have no basal bifurcation. In the males, the retinaculum is relatively long, triangular and the Costalfalte extends below the base of vein Sc. The hind wings are nearly the same width as the front wings. On them the Media Core has three separate branches. The frenulum of the male consists of a single, large bristle, which is surrounded by several small, costal setae. The females have a number of much smaller, undifferentiated costaler setae. The front rails ( tibiae ) of the legs not that the middle two and the rear four spurs. An epiphysis is formed. The rearward ( caudal ) border of the sternum 2a is W-shaped. The caudal margin of the seventh sternum is truncated in females.
In the male genitalia the uncus is blurry and has a wide, flat, double- lobed caudal edge. The Vinculum is broadly V-shaped. The Valven have a single, large subapicale spur. The juxtaposition is angled wide. The aedeagus is short, relatively stocky and bears numerous short Cornuti. In females, the ovipositor has similar to the Miniersackmotten ( Incurvariidae ) a flattened laterally lobed tip. The bursa copulatrix is completely membranous and has no signals.
The caterpillars are little known in their morphology. They have a cylindrical body which is 3.4 to 4.0 millimeters long. The mouthparts are directed forward ( prognathous ). The head bears six pairs of stemmata. The Torah calf A are well developed, the hips are separate. The abdominal legs are regressed, hook rings are formed on the third to sixth abdominal segment. They are arranged in two simple rows. The Nachschieber missing.
Way of life
Little is known about the eggs. The females lay them individually into plant tissue. The caterpillars build elongate, 3.5 to 4.0 mm long and 1.5 to 2.0 mm wide, nearly cylindrical quiver of leaf epidermis. The caterpillars feed on Rockrose (Cistus ). Before eating the caterpillar brings her quiver against the underside of a leaf and crawls through a small hole into it to nate on the leaf, similar as do the caterpillars of the Miniersackträger ( Coleophoridae ). The doll has a maximum length of 3.5 millimeters. There is a large range of tiny, scattered spines arranged on the terga of the second to eighth abdominal segment.
Taxonomy and systematics
Because of the flattened ovipositor resembles Crinopteryx familiella the Miniersackmotten. The unique autapomorphies, including the way of life similar to that one of Miniersackträger, the elongated cylindrical quiver of caterpillars, the angled Juxta and the single, large spur at the Valven of the males that justify classification in a separate family.