Tineola

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Tineola
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Common clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella)
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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]

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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.

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References

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