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Tinea pallescentella
Large Pale Clothes Moth Stainton, 1851
Tineidae: Tineinae
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Case-bearing Clothes Moth
Tinea pellionella
Speckled Clothes Moth
Tinea dubiella
Wingspan: 12-25mm
Flight: all months of the year.
Foodplant:   Animal materials, including wool, hair and feathers. It has also been bred from a wasp's nest
Nat Status: Local
Verification Grade:  Adult: 3
Status
Rare. Uncertain.

Slightly larger, and more generally speckled than similar species.
Probably introduced from South America during the 19th Century.

[MBGBI vol2 p203]

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 4 (5%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1874.
Last Recorded in 2012.

Latest 10 Records
Date#VC10kArea
19/08/2012 to 25/08/2012+27TG32Honing
04/10/2011+27TG41Burgh Common / Filby Broad
May 2005+27TG20Norwich (Earlham)
June 2003+27TG20Norwich (Earlham)
July 1997+27TM17Scole
01/12/1995127TM17Scole
1874+27TG20Norwich (Earlham)
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