Catapterix crimaea

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]

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

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]