Eudonia pallida

Eudonia pallida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Eudonia
Species: E. pallida
Binomial name
Eudonia pallida
(J.Curtis, 1827)[1]
Synonyms
  • Witlesia pallida
  • Eudorea pallida J.Curtis, 1827
  • Witlesia denigrata Costantini, 1923
  • Eudorea oertzeniella Herrich-Schäffer, [1848]
  • Eudorea oertziella Heydenreich, 1851

Eudonia pallida is a species of moth of the Crambidae family. It is known from most of Europe.

The wingspan is about 18 mm.[2] Adults are on wing in April to late September[3] in one generation per year.

The larvae feed on mosses and lichens at ground level. It has been reared from larvae found amongst the moss Calliergonella cuspidata.

References

  1. ↑ "Fauna Europaea". Faunaeur.org. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  2. ↑ "UKmoths". UKmoths. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  3. ↑ "Lepidoptera of Belgium". Webh01.ua.ac.be. 2004-04-26. Retrieved 2011-10-11.