Tinea columbariella
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Tinea |
| Species: | T. columbariella
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| Binomial name | |
| Tinea columbariella Wocke, 1877
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Tinea columbariella is a moth belonging to the family Tineidae. The species was first described by Wocke in 1877.[1]
It has a cosmopolitan distribution.[2]
Description
[edit]Wingspan 9-15 mm. Head with rust brown hair. Antennae just over half the front wing length. The forewings dark grey-brown with a black spot on the disc and a basal hyaline spot. Hindwings light grey. Difficult to distinguish from Tinea pellionella, Tinea dubiella and Tinea svenssoni but the genitalia are diagnostic.
Biology
[edit]Flies at night (and comes to light) from June to August. Found indoors in lofts, barns, stables and the like. The case-bearing larva is whitish with a dark head and feeds on nesting material or feathers in birds nests.
References
[edit]- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Tinea columbariella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ "Tinea columbariella Wocke, 1877". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- Gaedike,R. 2019 Tineidae II : Myrmecozelinae, Perissomasticinae, Tineinae, Hieroxestinae, Teichobiinae and Stathmopolitinae Microlepidoptera of Europe, vol. 9. Leiden : Brill, [2019]
- Petersen, G., 1957: Die Genitalien der paläarktischen Tineiden (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 7 (1/2): 55–176.