Tinea pellionella

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Case-bearing clothes moth
Case with pupal skin (above)
Adult moth (below)
Museum specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Tinea
Species:
T. pellionella
Binomial name
Tinea pellionella
Synonyms
  • Phalaena (Tinea) pellionella Linnaeus, 1758
  • Phalaena zoolegella Scopoli, 1763
  • Tinea demiurga Meyrick, 1920
  • Tinea gerasimovi Zagulajev, 1978
  • Tinea pelliomella (lapsus)

Tinea pellionella, the case-bearing clothes moth, is a species of tineoid moth in the family Tineidae, the fungus moths. This species has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring nearly worldwide.[1]

Taxonomy

Being a widespread species and often affiliated with humans, T. pellionella was among the first moths to be scientifically described in the modern sense. At that time most moths were included in a single genus "Phalaena", but Tinea was already recognized as a distinct subgenus. Some later researchers who studied this moth erroneously believed they had discovered populations formerly unknown to science and described them as new species, but today these are all included within T. pellionella. Obsolete scientific names for this moth thus may be encountered in the literature, and include:[2]

  • Phalaena (Tinea) pellionella Linnaeus, 1758
  • Phalaena zoolegella Scopoli, 1763
  • Tinea demiurga Meyrick, 1920
  • Tinea gerasimovi Zagulajev, 1978
  • Tinea pelliomella (lapsus)

It is the

furrier
, pellionellus.

Another common name is "bagworm" due to the case that their larvae carry around, but not to be confused with the

Psychidae
that are also called "bagworms" in English.

Cased larvae
Imago

Description

It is silvery grey to shiny light brown in color, with dark grayish hairs on the top of its head.

fabrics. It also consumes detritus, cobwebs, bird nests (particularly of the domestic pigeon), stored vegetable produce and wallpaper. It stays inside a snug case it constructs from debris such as fibers and hairs.[7][8]

Biology

It is

synanthropic; the adult is typically encountered during summer and early autumn, but populations that live in human dwellings may be seen at other times of the year.[7]

Control measures for the case-bearing clothes moth are similar to those for the

common clothes moth
(Tineola bisselliella), and include physical, chemical, and biological measures.

References

  1. ISSN 0007-4853
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  2. ^ "The Tineidae Database at the Natural History Museum". Natural History Museum. 2016-03-03. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  3. doi:10.5519/s93616qw
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  4. ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Species Tinea pellionella Linnaeus, 1758". web.archive.org. Australian Government Department of the Environment. 2012-02-27. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  5. ^ "Taxon Details - Tinea pellionella Linnaeus 1758". Fauna Europaea. 2011-01-27. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  6. ^ "Tinea pellionella | insectslimited". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
  7. ^ a b "Case-bearing Clothes Moth Adult | UKmoths". ukmoths.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  8. ^ Grabe, Albert (1942). "Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen" [Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars] (PDF). Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins (in German). 27: 105–109.


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