''Eudonia mercurella'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Crambidae The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...

. It is found in

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, western China,

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, and north-western

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

., 2012: One new species of the genus ''Eudonia'' Billberg (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae) from China. ''Entomotaxonomia'' 34 (2): 267–269. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...

is 16–19 mm. The forewings are dark black variously mixed with brown and with a darker band along the distal edge of the pale antemedian line. The pale postmedian line is usually distinct against the dark ground colour. The moth flies from June to August depending on the location. The larvae feed on various mosses. ''Phalaena mercurella'' described by Zetterstedt in 1839 was actually ''

Eudonia murana ''Eudonia murana'', the Scotch gray or wall grey, is a moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by John Curtis in 1827 and is found in most of Europe. The wingspan is 18–23 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August, possibly in ...

''.

References

External links

waarneming.nl

''Eudonia mercurella'' at UKmoths
* * Eudonia Moths described in 1758 Moths of Africa Moths of Asia Moths of Europe Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Scopariinae-stub