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Tinea pellionella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Tineoidea → family Tineidae → subfamily Tineinae → genus Tinea → species Tinea pellionella

Species name(s)

Tinea pellionella (Linnaeus, 1758) = Tinea pelliomella = Tinea? pelliolella = Tinea albella Costa, 1836 = Tinea demiurga Meyrick, 1920 = Tinea gerasimovi Zagulajev, 1978 = Phalaena zoolegella Scopoli, 1763. [9, 10, 187]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:10485

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #40. Primorsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

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

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • The wingspan of 10 to 13 mm. The front wings are yellow-gray-brown, with two or three black dots on each. Hind wings lighter front. Head yellow hairs. [11].

General info about Larva

  • Whitish moth larva lives in the same material, which is powered, one makes for himself Case consists, which will occur pupation. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • The caterpillar feeds on fur, wool, upholstery materials and similar materials. [11].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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