''Trichophaga robinsoni'' is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found on the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

, the

Selvagens Islands The Savage Islands or Selvagens Islands ( pt, Ilhas Selvagens ; also known as the Salvage Islands) are a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Madeira, and north of the Canary Islands.

and

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. It has also been recorded from Asia minor, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt,

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

, Somalia, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is also a record for

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

. The larvae feed on decaying animal matter, including regurgitated pellets of ''

Falco eleonorae Eleonora's falcon (''Falco eleonorae'') is a medium-sized falcon. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus ''Hypotriorchis''. The sooty falcon is sometimes considered its closest re ...

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Taxonomy

The species was described as ''Tinea abruptella'' by Thomas Vernon Wollaston in 1858. This name is preoccupied and the new name ''Trichophaga robinsoni'' was proposed by Reinhard Gaedike and Ole Karsholt in 2001.lepiforum.de
/ref> ''Trichophaga amina'' and ''Trichophaga desertella'' are alternatively listed as synonyms of ''

Trichophaga bipartitella ''Trichophaga'' is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the moninate subfamily Tineinae. Species Species of ''Trichophaga'' are:FE (2009) * '' Trichophaga bipartitella'' (Ragonot 1892) (='' Trichophaga amina'' ...

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References

Moths described in 1858 Tineinae {{Tineidae-stub