Long-legged china-mark
The long-legged china-mark is a small moth from Europe. Its caterpillars are some of the strangest eaters around. Besides plants, they will even munch dry leaves, old roots and plant waste.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars have been found eating eelgrass, a plant that grows under the sea.
The moths fly from May to September, depending on where they live.
Its wings measure only about 2 to 2.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
Scientists are still deciding whether it should have its own group, called Stenia.
Most asked questions about Long-legged china-mark
?What does the long-legged china-mark eat?
Its caterpillars eat plants like clover, plantain and knapweed, and even dry leaves and old roots.
?Where does the long-legged china-mark live?
Mostly in central and southern Europe, but it has been seen further north too.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dolicharthria punctalis
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Dolicharthria punctalis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by de:Benutzer:Engeser , uploaded by User:Fvlamoen. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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