Agriphila inquinatella

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The name Agriphila inquinatella has been misapplied to some related species in the past; see below for details.

Agriphila inquinatella
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Adult, museum specimen
Agriphila inquinatella, Llanymynech Hill, North Wales, August 2011 (19268083953).jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Agriphila
Species:
A. inquinatella
Binomial name
Agriphila inquinatella
Synonyms [1]
  • Argiphila inquinatella( lapsus )
  • Crambus elbursellusZerny, 1939
  • Crambus inquinatellus(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
  • Pediasia inquinatalisHübner, [1825]
  • Tinea arbustellaSchrank, 1802
  • Tinea inquinatellaDenis & Schiffermüller, 1775

Agriphila inquinatella is a small moth species of the family Crambidae. It is found in Europe, around the Caucasus area to Turkestan, and in the Near East to Jordan. [1] The type locality is in Austria. [2]

Contents

Three subspecies are accepted today: [1]

Their wingspan is 23–29 mm. Similar to Agriphila geniculea and Agriphila tolli . The forewing ground colour is cream to straw brown.The forewing has scattered black scales and the veins are widely marked whitish.There is a distinctive dark stain on dorsal side of the discal cell (and on the upper edge of the angled median streak).The outer cross-line is broken by projections of the median streak. There is a single row of black sub-terminal dots. The cilia are grey. In the similar A. geniculea the lines are strongly angled and the cilia glossy or metallic. Meyrick - Face with sharp cone. Forewings light yellow-ochreous, somewhat mixed with pale brownish, with scattered dark fuscous scales, sometimes more or less wholly suffused with rather dark brown; veins suffusedly paler or whitish-ochreous, especially median; angulated median and second lines indistinct, brownish, marked with dark fuscous below middle; a terminal series of black dots; cilia rather dark shining fuscous, in female paler. Hindwings grey. Larva dull grey-greenish to purplish-brown; spots large, darker; head dark brown or blackish. [3] [4]

The caterpillars feed mainly on Poaceae grasses, such as meadow-grass species (Poa) or sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina) in silken galleries. They can be found under pebbles adjacent to their food plants, suggesting that they feed on the plants' roots. A more unusual food plant is the Pottiales moss Tortula muralis . [5]

Misidentifications involving this species

Apart from the junior synonyms listed, two scientific names have been misapplied to this species in the past: [1]

In turn, the present species' scientific name was erroneously used for the related moths Pediasia contaminella (by Jacob Hübner in 1817), Agriphila geniculea (by J.F. Stephens in 1834 and W. Wood in 1839), Pediasia aridella (by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1839), and Agriphila brioniella (by Aristide Caradja in 1910 and Alexander Kirilow Drenowski in 1923). [1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 See references in Savela (2005)
  2. ↑ Roohigohar, Sh; Alipanah, H.; Imani, S. (2016). "Crambinae of Iran (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae)". SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 44 (175): 477. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  3. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description
  4. ↑ Mark Parsons, Sean Clancy, David Wilson A Guide to the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Britain and Ireland: Atropos, England. ISBN:9780955108648
  5. ↑ Grabe (1942), and see references in Savela (2005)

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