Crambus pratella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pyraloidea → family Crambidae → subfamily Crambinae → tribe Crambini → genus Crambus → species Crambus pratella

Species name(s)

Crambus pratella (Linnaeus, 1758) = Crambus pratellus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena (Tinea) pratella Linnaeus, 1758 = Tinea dumetellus Hübner, [1813] = Argyroteuchia saltalis Hübner, [1825] = Tinea hamella = Agriphila pratalis = Agriphila nemorellus. [3, 5, 9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky*; #26. Predbaikalsky*; #27. Pribaikalsky*; #28. Zabaikalsky*.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Forewing length

10—11 mm.

Flight time

January

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September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Agriphilas nemorellus [5].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia,Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, the European Central European South taiga, Zabaikalsk (?), Kaliningrad, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk (?) Of Baikal (?) Pribaikalskiy (?) Mid-Volzhsky, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Almost all of Europe to alpine meadows in the mountains. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing from 1 to 1.1 cm. The color is light brown with a silvery elongated spot. There are several species of similar appearance. [5].

General info about Imago

It flies in the meadows, in gardens and parks, forest edges. [5].

Imago lifespan

From late May to late July. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Meadow grasses. [5].

Larva lifespan

From July to the beginning of May. [5].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [5].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Igor Sakhno.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)