Tinea pellionella Linnaeus, 1758

FAMILY	Tineidae
SUBFAMILY	Tineinae
GENUS	Tinea
SPECIES	pellionella
AUTHOR	Linnaeus, 1758
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	P.[halaena] Tinea pellionella
TYPE LOCALITY	Europe.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Not stated.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, .... Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata. - — :i–iv, 1–824.
PAGINATION	536

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
albella	Costa, 1836	Synonym of species
demiurga	Meyrick, 1920	Synonym of species
gerasimovi	Zagulajev, 1960	Synonym of species
zoolegella	(Scopoli, 1763)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Saint-Helena	Wollaston T. V. 1879. Notes on the Lepidoptera of St. Helena, with descriptions of new species. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 3(15):219–233; (17): 329–343; (18): 415–441.	422
South Africa		Meyrick E. 1909a. New South African Microlepidoptera. - Annals of the South African Museum 5:349–379.	361
Yemen	Socotra	Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31–130, pl. 1.	129

Notes: Common across its native Europe, but introduced to many other parts including Australia, North-America and Africa (Picker & Griffiths 2011: 213).

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Undefined	Undefined Decaying animal matter