Agriphila tristella
Species of moth
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Agriphila tristella, the common grass-veneer,[3][4] is a species of moth of the family Crambidae found in Europe and Asia.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Agriphila |
| Species: | A. tristella |
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Description
Handbook of British Lepidoptera
The following description of Agriphila tristella was published in Edward Meyrick's 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera:[6]
The wingspan is 22–30 mm. The face has a short cone. Forewings are pale or deep yellow-ochreous, often mixed and sometimes wholly suffused with dark brown; median vein and lb pale or whitish; second line indistinctly brownish, acutely angulated, sometimes obsolete; sometimes some indistinct blackish terminal dots; cilia shining whitish-ochreous to fuscous. Hindwings are grey. The larva is pale ochreous or brownish; spots large, blackish-brown; head and plate of 2 black
See also Parsons et al.[7]
