Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758)

FAMILY	Tineidae
SUBFAMILY	Tineinae
GENUS	Niditinea
SPECIES	fuscella
AUTHOR	(Linnaeus, 1758)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	P.[halaena] Tinea fuscella
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	539

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
abligatella	(Walker, 1863)	Synonym of species
crinitella	(Schrank, 1802)	Synonym of species
distans	(Gozmány, 1959)	Synonym of species
eurinella	(Zagulajev, 1952)	Synonym of species
frigidella	(Packard, 1867)	Synonym of species
fuscipunctella	(Haworth, 1828)	Synonym of species
griseella	(Chambers, 1873)	Synonym of species
nubilipennella	(Clemens, 1859)	Synonym of species
spretella	(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Seychelles	Silhouette	Gerlach J. 1998b. Additions and corrections to the Silhouette species list. - Phelsuma 6:80-84.	83 (introduced)
Seychelles	Mahé	Meyrick E. 1911e. Tortricina and Tineina. Results of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2) 14(3):263-307.	305 (as fuscipunctella)
South Africa		Walsingham Thomas de Grey 1891a. African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1891(1):63-132, pls 3-7.	86 (as fuscipunctella)

Notes: Palaearctic: Europe.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Undefined	Undefined Decaying vegetable matter		Gozmány L. A. & Vári L. 1973. The Tineidae of the Ethiopian Region. - Transvaal Museum Memoir 18:i-vi, 1-238.	48

* Polyphagous (see L. A. Gozmány & L. Vári 1973: 48); detritophagous in stored vegetable and animal fibres (see J. Gerlach & P. Matyot 2006: 20).