Glyptoteles leucacrinella

Glyptoteles leucacrinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Tribe: Phycitini
Genus: Glyptoteles
Zeller, 1848
Species: G. leucacrinella
Binomial name
Glyptoteles leucacrinella
Zeller, 1848
Synonyms
  • Nephopterix macra Staudinger, 1870

Glyptoteles is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. A single species is recognized, Glyptoteles leucacrinella. It is found in most of Europe, except Great Britain, Ireland, Fennoscandia, Portugal and most of the Balkan Peninsula.

The caterpillars of G. leucacrinella have been noted for the unusual food they may eat vegetable remains and dry leaves.[1]

Otherwise, they feed on alder trees (Alnus).

Footnotes

  1. Grabe (1942)

References


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