Monopis longella

Monopis longella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Genus:	Monopis
Species:	M. longella
Binomial name
	Monopis longella; (Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
	Tinea longella Walker, 1863; Blabophanes longella; Monopis pseudagyrta Meyrick, 1919; Monopis pavlovskii Zagulajev, 1955;

Monopis longella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It has been recorded from China, Korea India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia and Thailand^[1] and is an introduced species in North America, where it has been recorded from New York to central Florida and west to Michigan.^[2]

The larvae have been found tunnelling in the feathers and pupating just below the nest surface in a cylindrical cocoon of thin silk with adhering fragments of feathers.

Taxonomy[]

It has been placed as a synonym of Monopis monachella in the past.

External links[]

Gaedike. Some New and Interesting “Microlepidoptera” from the Collection of theZoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn(Lepidoptera: Tineidae, Epermeniidae, Acrolepiidae, Douglasiidae)

References[]

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[1] Lee et al., 2016. First report on two species of genus Monopis (Lepidoptera, Tineidae.) collected by feather trap in Korea. - Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, Vol.9 (2)

[2] thphotographersgroup

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