Species Tineola bisselliella - Webbing Clothes Moth - Hodges#426

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webbing clothes moth - Tineola bisselliella

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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)

Subfamily Tineinae

Genus Tineola

Species bisselliella (Webbing Clothes Moth - Hodges#426)

Hodges Number

426

Explanation of Names

Author: Hummel, 1823

Food

Larva feeds on wool clothing and other animal products, amid webbing (as opposed to making a portable case as the case-making clothes moth does).

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 15 March, 2009 - 11:11am

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