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Species Nemapogon variatella - Hodges#0275

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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
No Taxon (cloacella-granella-variatella)
Species variatella (Nemapogon variatella - Hodges#0275)
Hodges Number
0275
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Nemapogon variatella (Clemens, 1859)
Range
Found in almost all of Europe. Also found in North America, possibly introduced.
Food
Feeds on bracket fungus or dead wood, and possibly on dried grain or stored produce.