Monopis weaverella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tineidae |
Genus: | Monopis |
Species: | M. weaverella |
Binomial name | |
Monopis weaverella (Scott, 1858) | |
Synonyms | |
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Monopis weaverella is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. It is found in most of Europe [1] and North America. [2]
The wingspan is 13–18 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August. [3]
The larvae are scavengers on animal carcasses and faeces. [4]
Clothes moth or clothing moth is the common name for several species of moth considered to be pests, whose larvae eat animal fibres (hairs), including clothing and other fabrics.
Monopis imella is a moth of the family Tineidae found in Europe.
Monopis monachella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is widespread in Eurasia, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, New Guinea, Samoa, North America and South America.
Monopis obviella is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is the type species of Blabophanes, today treated as a junior synonym of the genus Monopis. M. crocicapitella was only separated from the present species in 1859, and is still frequently confused with it even by rather recent sources.
Monopis icterogastra, the wool moth, is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found in most of Australia.
Monopis is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae.
Monopis laevigella, the skin moth, is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is the type species of the genus Monopis and its junior objective synonym Hyalospila. As with the common clothes moth, earlier authors frequently misapplied the name Tinea vestianella to the present species.
Monopis longella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It has been recorded from China, Korea India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia and Thailand and is an introduced species in North America, where it has been recorded from New York to central Florida and west to Michigan.
Monopis crocicapitella, the pale-backed clothes moth, is a moth of the family Tineidae described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1859. It has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. It was first described from the eastern United States. It is particularly destructive of fabric and clothes.
Monopis meliorella, the blotched monopis moth, is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It has been recorded from Australia and Hawaii.
Monopis spilotella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was described by Johan Martin Jakob von Tengström in 1848. It is found in Scandinavia, Denmark, the Baltic region,Ukraine, and Russia. It is also found in North America.
Monopis burmanni is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found in Austria, Poland and Russia (Ural).
Monopis pavlovskii, or Pavlovski's monopis moth, is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found in China, Russia, Japan and Korea and is an introduced species in North America, where it has been recorded from New York to central Florida and west to Michigan. Specimens have also been found as far west as Illinois.
Monopis dorsistrigella, the skunkback monopi, is a species of clothes moth in the family Tineidae.
Monopis fenestratella is a moth belonging to the family Tineidae. The species was first described by Carl von Heyden in 1863.
Monopis argillacea is a moth of the family Tineidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1893. It is found in Australia and New Zealand.
Monopis ethelella is a moth of the family Tineidae first described by Edward Newman in 1856. It is found in Australia and New Zealand.