Bird Nest Moth

Monopis crocicapitella

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae

Monopis crocicapitella, the pale-backed clothes moth, or the bird-nest moth, is a moth of the family Tineidae described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1859. It has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. It was first described from the eastern United States.

Distribution

Bird Nest Moth — (c) Gilles San Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Gilles San Martin · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United Kingdom · 111Netherlands · 82Germany · 41Belgium · 27France · 15Italy · 10Switzerland · 9Spain · 7Luxembourg · 6

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Gilles San Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Gilles San Martin · CC-BY-SA DescriptionMonopis crocicapitella, Wikipedia contributors

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