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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Nemapogoninae » Nemapogon » Nemapogon clematella - Hodges#0263.5 (Nemapogon clematella)

Species Nemapogon clematella - Hodges#0263.5

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Food · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Tineoidea (Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths)
Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)
Subfamily Nemapogoninae
Genus Nemapogon
Species clematella (Nemapogon clematella - Hodges#0263.5)
Hodges Number
0263.5
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
original combination Tinea clematella Fabricius 1781
Size
Wingspan 12 - 15mm
Food
larvae feed on fungus growing on dead branches of various trees, or in rotten wood
Internet References
UK Moths - species page
Moth Photographers Group - species page
Contributed by Bob Patterson on 8 June, 2010 - 2:29am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 4 March, 2012 - 7:39pm

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