Crombrugghia kollari

Crombrugghia kollari
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
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 has a very characteristically grey-whitish colour with 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. ↑ "Crombrugghia kollari". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  2. ↑ Tentative Checklist of the Turkish Lepidoptera
  3. ↑ "On the Systematics and Origin of the Generic Group oxyptilus Zeller (Lep. Alucitidae)". Biostor.org. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Die Raupe und Puppe von Oxyptilus kollari Stt" (PDF). Landes Museum. Retrieved 21 June 2012.


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