Elatobia fuliginosella

Elatobia fuliginosella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was described by Friederike Lienig and Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1846. It is found in almost all of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, the Benelux, Denmark and parts of the Balkan Peninsula, eastwards up to European Russia; in North Africa known from Morocco and Tunisia, eastwards through Siberia up to Mongolia.[2]

Elatobia fuliginosella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Elatobia
Species:
E. fuliginosella
Binomial name
Elatobia fuliginosella
(Lienig & Zeller, 1846)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tinea fuliginosella Zeller, 1846
  • Tineomima kenteella Staudinger, 1892
  • Tinea severella Christoph, 1888

The wingspan is 13–19 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from June to August.[3]

The larvae feed on insect remains.

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20170103175105/http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=45522101005. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2016-01-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Swedish Moths


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