''Euzophera pinguis'', the tabby knot-horn, is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Pyralidae. It was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811 and is found in Europe. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is 23–28 mm. The moths are on wing from July to August depending on the location. The larvae feed on '' Fraxinus excelsior''.

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External links

Microplepidoptera.nl UKMoths
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