Bird Nest Moth: Profile

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Tineid Moth (:Tineoidea Tineidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Bird Nest Moth (Monopis crocicapitella)

This Photo:

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Other name:

Black and brown tineid

Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† & Rebecca Hamdorf for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Tineids usually eat dead organic matter, like clothes, and in this case Bird's Nests

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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