Ephestia elutella (Hubner, 1796)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Pyraloidea → family Pyralidae → subfamily Phycitinae → tribe Phycitini → genus Ephestia → species Ephestia elutella

Species name(s)

Ephestia elutella (Hubner, 1796) = Tinea elutella Hübner, 1796 = Phycis elutea Haworth, 1811 = Phycis semirufa Haworth, 1811 = angusta (Haworth, 1811) = Phycis rufa Haworth, 1811 = Hyphantidium sericarium Scott, 1859 = Ephestia roxburghii Gregson, 1873 = Ephestia infumatella Ragonot, 1887 = Homoeosoma affusella Ragonot, 1888 = Ephestia icosiella Ragonot, 1888 = Ephestia amarella Dyar, 1904 = uniformata Dufrane, 1942 = Ephestia roxburgii = unicolorella Staudinger, 1879 = Ephestia elutella. [9, 10, 11]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Ephestia elutella [11].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland *, Ireland, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Azores, Albania, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Iceland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Finland, France (mainland) Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. [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, Kola, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga, Primorye, Sakhalin, Amur Medium, Medium Volzhsky, Mid-Urals, South Ural. [3].
"Delivered to all countries of the world." [11].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 15 mm. The front wings are reddish-gray, whitish tail. [11].

General info about Imago

Often found in homes. [11].

Imago lifespan

Summer. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Seeds, grains, dried fruits, cookies and chocolate (!), As well as the herbarium collection and the insects can eat grain moth caterpillar. [11].

Subspecies of Ephestia elutella

Ephestia elutella pterogrisella Roesler, 1965. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: 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