Nemapogon granella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Tineoidea → family Tineidae → subfamily Nemapogoninae → genus Nemapogon → species Nemapogon granella

Species name(s)

Nemapogon granella (Linnaeus, 1758) = Nemapogon granellus (Linnaeus, 1758) = costotristrigella (Chambers, 1873) = fuscomaculella (Chambers, 1873) = marmorella (Chambers, 1875) = nigroatomella (Dietz, 1905) = granella (Linnaeus, 1758) = Nemapogon costistrigella = Nemapogon fascomaculella = Tineola granella = Tinea granella Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena fenestrella Scopoli, 1763 = Tinea costotristrigella Chambers, 1873 = Phalaena domesticella Scopoli, 1763 = Tinea fuscicomella Wörz, 1958 = Tinea fuscomaculella Chambers, 1873 = Tinea mancuniella Hodgkinson, 1880 = Tinea marmorella Chambers, 1875 = Tinea nebulosella Geoffroy, 1785 = Tinea nigroatomella Dietz, 1905 = Tinea tesserella Fabricius, 1794. [9, 10, 11, 187]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Tineola granella [11].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France , Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia , Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland,Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Karelia, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, South West Siberian, South Ural . [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The wingspan of 9 to 14 mm. The front wings are white with brown and black spots and dots. Hind wings gray. Head whitish. [11].

Imago lifespan

Spring. [11].

General info about Larva

Caterpillar yellow-gray, and 10 mm long. Caterpillar bites into grain gnaws it moves, then attaches via shelkovinok next to the first grain, and so forth. By the time the caterpillar shedding ceases generally coma can be recruited and 20, and even 30 grains.In the fall of caterpillar crawling on the walls, floor and ceiling of the grain storage gnaw small cell and they weave cocoons. The cocoons of the larvae spend the winter and in the spring - pupate. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Grains. [11].

Egg

Eggs are laid in the spring. [11].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar in a cocoon. [11].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Zoran Bozovic.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[11] Жизнь животных по А. Э. Брему. Т.2: Членистоногие. М.: Учпедгиз РСФСР, 1941
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org