Crambidia casta

Crambidia casta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Crambidia
Species:	C. casta
Binomial name
Crambidia casta (Packard, 1869)[1]
Synonyms
Lithosia casta Packard, 1869 Lithosia candida H. Edwards, 1873

Crambidia casta, the pearly-winged lichen moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Packard in 1869. It is found from North Carolina and Kentucky north to Nova Scotia. In the west it occurs from the Rocky Mountain states south to central Arizona and New Mexico. The habitat consists of eastern hardwood forests, juniper woodlands and sagebrush rangelands

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are pure white with a satiny sheen. The hindwings are duller white.

The larvae feed on lichens.^[2]

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