''Trichophaga mormopis'' is a
moth of the family
Tineidae. It was first described by
Edward Meyrick in 1935. It is widely distributed from Africa to
India,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
,
Malaya
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
,
Taiwan and
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 ...
. It was first recorded from
Hawaii in 1944.
The
wingspan is 6–8 mm.
The larvae feed on a variety of dead materials, including fur, skin, woolen materials and feathers.
External links
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Tineinae
Insects of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fauna of the Gambia
Moths of Seychelles
Insects of Tanzania
Moths of Africa
Moths described in 1935
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