Myrmecozela ochraceella

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Myrmecozela ochraceella

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Genus:	Myrmecozela
Species:	M. ochraceella
Binomial name
*Myrmecozela ochraceella* (Tengström, 1848)^[1]
Synonyms
Tinea ochraceella Tengström, 1848 Tinea perochraceella Doubleday, 1859 Myrmecozela extinctella Caradja, 1920

Myrmecozela ochraceella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found in Great Britain, Fennoscandia, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain.

A larval run formed from bits of stick in the ants' nest spun together with silk

The wingspan is 15–18 mm.^[2] A small yellow-brown moth. The head, forebody and forewings are solid ochre yellow to light rust brown, the hindwings are grey with yellow hair fringes. The larva is yellowish white with a yellow-brown head.

The larvae feed on detritus in ant nests (Formica aquilonia, Formica lugubris and Formica rufa) .

References

Taxon identifiers
Myrmecozela ochraceella	Wikidata: Q6948344 Wikispecies: Myrmecozela ochraceella BioLib: 44884 BOLD: 286139 CoL: 45BFR EoL: 128124 EUNIS: 299167 Fauna Europaea: 433437 Fauna Europaea (new): 7348712d-b06e-46e9-93a0-4cde0a39c79c GBIF: 1856098 iNaturalist: 1000701 IRMNG: 10783779 LepIndex: 131580 NBN: NHMSYS0000503306 NCBI: 753373 Observation.org: 180605 Open Tree of Life: 1366

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