Tineola
Appearance
Tineola | |
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Common clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tineidae |
Subfamily: | Tineinae |
Genus: | Tineola Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 |
Species | |
2, see text |
Tineola is a genus of moths the family Tineidae. There are two species, including the familiar common clothes moth (T. bisselliella).[1][2]
Species:[2]
- Tineola anaphecola Gozmány, 1967
- Tineola bisselliella (Hummel, 1823) - common clothes moth, webbing clothes moth
References
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Tineola.
- ^ Tineola. Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
- ^ a b Plarre, R. and B. Krüger-Carstensen. (2012). An attempt to reconstruct the natural and cultural history of the webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella Hummel (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research 43(2), 83-93.