Catapterix crimaea

Catapterix crimaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Acanthopteroctetidae
Genus:	Catapterix
Species:	C. crimaea
Binomial name
Catapterix crimaea Zagulajev & Sinev, 1988[1]

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. "Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details". www.faunaeur.org. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
2. "CATAPTERIX - Butterflies and Moths of the World". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
3. 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)". Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (in French). XXV (3): 153–156. ISSN 1288-5509.
4. 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. Retrieved 27 August 2022.