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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Tineoidea » Clothes Moths (Tineidae)

Family Tineidae - Clothes Moths

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Moth ID - Xylesthia pruniramiella Clothes Moth - Hodges #0305 - Mea bipunctella casemaking clothes moth - Tinea pellionella Micromoth? moth - Monopis pavlovskii A Tineidae sp. - Monopis laevigella Moth - Dyotopasta yumaella Yellow-headed Monopis Moth - Hodges #0418.1 - Monopis pavlovskii
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Tineoidea
Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)
Numbers
15 subfamilies, 320 genera, and more than 3,000 known species in the world. At least 49 genera and 112 species in North America.
Internet References
Wikipedia.
Natural History Museum. Global Taxonomic Database.
Contributed by tom murray on 17 July, 2005 - 10:43pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, anitagould
Last updated 12 September, 2008 - 10:27am

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