Fern Smut

Psychoides filicivora

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae

Psychoides filicivora is a moth of the family Tineidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. First found in Ireland in 1909, it is possible that the moth was introduced from imported ferns from Asia. The moth can be found from spring though autumn in a series of generations.

Distribution

Fern Smut — (c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United Kingdom · 119Netherlands · 10France · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPsychoides filicivora, Wikipedia contributors

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