1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Diagnose

2.1. Falter und Weibchen-Genital

Bassi in Bassi et al. (2025: 191) beschreibt das Weibchen und sein Genital ausführlich. Dann erklärt er: "The wing pattern is similar to that of the other species of the C. permutatella group with the medial stripe of the forewing interrupted by brown bands. However, the narrow brown bands, the single yellowish subapical dot along costa and the pale grey brown hindwing are distinctive features. The female genitalia are similar to those of C. spatulellus (Turati, 1919) (Bassi & Huemer,2020, Figures 22-24), an Italian species with uniform white streak in the forewing, differing in having alarge and rounded ostium bursae, with the sterigma only slightly produced ventrally and the basal plate of the sternite of abdominal segment VIII laterally sinuate and with strong medial protuberance as opposed to the strongly produced sterigma and the laterally stouter basal plate of the sternite of abdominal segment VIII and with lamellate medial protuberance in C. spatulellus."

3. Biologie

3.1. Nahrung der Raupe

Noch unbekannt!

4. Weitere Informationen

4.1. Etymologie (Namenserklärung)

Bassi et al. (2025: 191) erklären: "The new species derives its name from the Plitvice lakes, which are very close to type locality."

4.2. Taxonomie und Faunistik

Bassi in Bassi et al. (2025: 191) beschreibt seine neue Art nach einem einzelnen Weibchen: "Holotype female: CROATIA, Rastovaga near Plitvice, 510 m, 44º54’N, 15º37’E, 2-3-VII-2007, G.Bassi leg., GS 4907 GB, RCGB." Ein Barcode-Vergleich steht leider noch aus.

(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)

4.3. Literatur

• Erstbeschreibung: Bassi, G., Graf, F. & F. Slamka (2025): New or interesting Pyraloidea for the European and Italian faunas (Insecta: Lepidoptera). — SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 53 (209): 189-201. [zum PDF-Download auf shilap.org]
• Bassi, G. & P. Huemer (2020): Notes on some Catoptria Hübner, 1825 (Crambidae, Lepidoptera) from the Central Apennines (Italy), with the descriptions of Catoptria samnitica sp. nov. and the male of Catoptria apenninica Bassi, 2017. — Nota Lepidopterolotica 43: 253-263. [Digitalversion und PDF-Download auf nl.pensoft.net]