Species Details

ABH: 12.027

BF: 240

Family: Tineidae

Subfamily: Tineinae

Taxon: Tinea pellionella

Authority: Linnaeus, 1758

Vernacular: Case-bearing Clothes Moth

Account: Local in houses, bird nests, barns, warehouses and granaries throughout the British Isles Probably the commonest tineid clothes moth, but cannot always be reliably separated from T. translucens or T. dubiella without dissection of the genitalia. Larva feeds on woollen materials, fur, feathers, hair, owl pellets and stored goods, living within a silken case, causing sufficient damage to be a serious pest in some areas.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 9 — 16 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 14 Mar (2009) — 29 Aug (2005)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant:

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/tinea-pellionella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 29

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2024

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