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Skin Moth

Monopis laevigella

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Tineidae

Monopis laevigella, the skin moth, is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is (under its junior synonym Tinea rusticella) the type species of the genus Monopis and its junior objective synonym Hyalospila.

Distribution

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United Kingdom · 51Germany · 33Netherlands · 5France · 2Belgium · 1Luxembourg · 1Switzerland · 1