Species Crambus youngellus - Young's Grass-veneer - Hodges#5349

5349

Crambus youngellus Kearfott, 1908 (1)

Named in honor of collector Charles H. Young of Ottawa. Young supplied many "exquisitely mounted specimens" to Kearfott, August Busck and J.H. McDunnough and has several lepidoptera named for him, including Acleris youngana (McDunnough), Crambus youngellus Kearfott, Sympistis youngi (McDunnough) and Thaumatographa youngiella (Busck). (1)

Wingspan about 22 mm. (2)

Adult: forewing mostly silvery white with broad yellowish-orange streak running from subterminal line to base, and continuing onto shoulders and head to eye; ST line V-shaped, yellowish-orange, broad at inner margin, tapering to thin strip at angle of "V", and continuing to costa; terminal line thin, blackish, with 4 or 5 short dark dashes along lower half; triangular yellowish-orange apical dash; fringe white; hindwing white to pale gray.

Records from Wisconsin, Ontario, Quebec and Maine, south to North Carolina and Tennessee. (2)

Type locality: Mer Bleue, Ontario (C.H. Young, July 2-10). (1)

Girard's Grass-veneer (C. girardellus) forewing lacks the upper portion of the ST line, and has no triangular apical dash.

Kearfott, W.D. 1908. Descriptions of new species of North American crambid moths. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington 35 (1649): 380. (1)

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