Tineidae
Tineidae (or clothes moth) is a family of moths. They are known as fungus moths or tineid moths.
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| Family: | Tineidae Latreille, 1810
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| Tinea Linnaeus, 1758
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There are more than 3,000 species in over 300 genera. Most of the tineid moths are small or medium-sized. They have wings. They are common in the Palaearctic. Others found elsewhere were introduced
Tineids eat living plants, fungi, lichens, and detritus. The best-known members of the family are the clothes moths. They eat stored fabrics. The most widespread species are the common clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella), the case-bearing clothes moth (Tinea pellionella) and the carpet moth (Trichophaga tapetzella). The brown-dotted clothes moths (Niditinea fuscella) feeds on feathers in a bird's nest. The genus Ceratophaga, feeds on dead animals such as mammals and the shells of dead tortoises.
Books
change- Dugdale, J.S., 1988. Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue and keys of family-group taxa. Fauna of New Zealand, 14: 1-262.
- Gaedike, R. 1983. Zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Tineiden Die Gattung Infurcitinea Spuler, 1910 (Lepidoptera). Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, 46: 121-150.
- Gaedike, R. 1985. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Tineiden: Gattung Obesoceras Petersen, 1957 (Lepidoptera). Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, 48: 167-181.
- Hinton, H.E. 1956. The larvae of the species of Tineidae of economic importance. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 47: 251-346.
- Leraut, P., 1985. Mise a jour de la liste des Tineides de la faune de France. Entomologica Gallica, 1(4): 319-325.
- Petersen, G. 1957-8. Die Genitalien der paläarktischen Tineiden. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 7: 55-176, 338-380, 557-595; 8: 111-118, 398-430.
- Robinson, G.S. 1979. Clothes-moths of the Tinea pellionella complex: a revision of the world's species (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology), 38: 57-128, figs 1-103.
- Zagulajev A K. 1988 English translation (original 1975). Clothes Moths (Tineidae) (English translation of Nastoyaschie Moli (Tineidae)).Akademiya Nauk SSSr, Zoologicheskii Institut, New series No. 108
References
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- Darby, Gene (1958). What is a Butterfly. Chicago: Benefic Press. p. 43.
- Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
- Common Clothes Moth
- A Caterpillar that Eats Tortoise Shells Archived 2009-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Tineid of Korea
- Fauna Europaea Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
