About Glyptoteles leucacrinella Zeller, 1848
Glyptoteles is a monotypic moth genus in the family Pyralidae, meaning it contains only one species. This single species is Glyptoteles leucacrinella, first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1848. It is distributed across most of Europe, excluding Great Britain, Ireland, Fennoscandia, Portugal, and most of the Balkan Peninsula. The caterpillars of this species have an unusual reported feeding habit: they may consume vegetable remains and dry leaves. They also regularly feed on alder trees from the genus Alnus.
