---
title: "Elegant Grass-veneer"
description: "Microcrambus elegans — Insectes et araignées. Microcrambus elegans, the elegant grass-veneer moth, is a moth of the family Crambidae which was first described in 1860 by James Brackenridge Clemens."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/elegant-grass-veneer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Elegant Grass-veneer

> Microcrambus elegans — Insectes et araignées. Microcrambus elegans, the elegant grass-veneer moth, is a moth of the family Crambidae which was first described in 1860 by James Brackenridge Clemens.

- Scientific name: *Microcrambus elegans*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prairies et champs)
- iNaturalist observations: 41247
- Wikidata: [Q6839416](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6839416)
- iNaturalist taxon: [52904](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52904)

## Names

- en: Elegant Grass-veneer

## Countries with the most observations

US (24733), CA (4836)

## Summary

Microcrambus elegans, the elegant grass-veneer moth, is a moth of the family Crambidae which was first described in 1860 by James Brackenridge Clemens. Adults are on wing from June to August in the north and from March to October in the south. There is one generation per year in the north and multiple in the south.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcrambus_elegans

## Photo

![Elegant Grass-veneer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/elegant-grass-veneer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/373698435

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/elegant-grass-veneer?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).