Biology:Catapterix crimaea
| Catapterix crimaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Acanthopteroctetidae |
| Genus: | Catapterix |
| Species: | C. crimaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Catapterix crimaea Zagulajev & Sinev, 1988[1]
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Catapterix crimaea is a moth of the family Acanthopteroctetidae and type species of the genus Catapterix.[2] It was described in 1988 from the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine ,[1] and was in 2016 first recorded from southern France.[3] From its description in 1988 up until the description of Catapterix tianshanica in 2016, Catapterix crimaea was considered the sole species of its genus.[4]
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.[3]
No female specimens have so far been described.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details". http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=431742. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ↑ "CATAPTERIX - Butterflies and Moths of the World". http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=5264.0&&. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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)" (in fr). Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie XXV (3): 153–156. ISSN 1288-5509. https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/648812.
- ↑ 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. https://nl.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9882. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
Wikidata ☰ Q13457429 entry
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