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Tineola

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Tineola
Common clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella)
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

References

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  1. ^ Tineola. Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
  2. ^ 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.