Tinea pellionella

Case-bearing clothes moth
Case with pupal skin (above)
Adult moth (below)
Museum specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Tinea
Species:
T. pellionella
Binomial name
Tinea pellionella
Synonyms
  • Phalaena (Tinea) pellionella Linnaeus, 1758
  • Phalaena zoolegella Scopoli, 1763
  • Tinea demiurga Meyrick, 1920
  • Tinea gerasimovi Zagulajev, 1978
  • Tinea pelliomella (lapsus)

Tinea pellionella, the case-bearing clothes moth, is a species of tineoid moth in the family Tineidae, the fungus moths. This species has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring nearly worldwide.[1]

  1. ^ Cheema, P. S. (March 1956). "Studies on the Bionomics of the Case-bearing Clothes Moth, Tinea pellionella (L.)". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 47 (1): 167–182. doi:10.1017/S0007485300046605. ISSN 0007-4853.