Xanthocrambus saxonellus

Xanthocrambus saxonellus is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken in 1821. It is found in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Belarus,^[1] Turkmenistan,^[2] Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Armenia^[3] and China.

Xanthocrambus saxonellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Subfamily:	Crambinae
Tribe:	Crambini
Genus:	Xanthocrambus
Species:	X. saxonellus
Binomial name
Xanthocrambus saxonellus (Zincken, 1821)
Synonyms
Chilo saxonellus Zincken, 1821 Chilo chrysellus chrysellus Treitschke, 1832 Crambus saxonellus var. carentellus Christoph, 1888

The wingspan is 19–23 mm.^[4] Adults are on wing from mid-May to August.

The larvae feed on Gramineae species.^[5]