Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879

Tsvetkov, Eugene, 2020, Narrow-winged pyralids (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) of Leningrad Province and the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, Zootaxa 4890 (3), pp. 361-374 : 371

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22C592BE-EAE7-4D4A-9EE6-17BAECBA9ACC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4339481

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7D288784-800C-FA69-FF02-5F3D266EFA8F

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879
status

 

Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879 View in CoL

( Moeberg 1925; Lvovsky 1994)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 ♀, St. Petersburg, 5.v.1918 (Kawrigin); 1 ♀ , St. Petersburg, 4 th mechanized backery, 7.iv.1934; 1 Ƌ , St. Petersburg, 20.iii.1935 (Gerasimov); 1 Ƌ , St. Petersburg, Vasilevsky Island , in flat, 15.v.1991 (N. Shelyapin); 1 Ƌ , St. Petersburg, in flat, 29.x.1994 (А. Lvovsky) .

REMARKS. Imagoes of this species are found in flats, houses, storages all the year round. Larva feeds on flour, dried fruit, nuts and many other products.

DISTRIBUTION. A transcontinental species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pyralidae

Genus

Ephestia

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