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Trichophaga mormopis Meyrick

Trichophaga mormopis Meyrick, 1935b:575.—Ghesquière, 1940:5.—Clarke, 1955 [1955–1970]:211.—Gozmány, 1967:7, figs. 5, 6.—Zimmerman, 1978, p. 305, figs. 143, 144, 145.

Trichophaga percna Corbet and Tams, 1943b: 131, fig. 5; 1943c: 107, 119, fig. 214.—Hinton, 1956:328.—Gozmány, 1967:7.

Male genitalia slide USNM 25046. Harpe with arched costa; cucullus curved inwardly, sharply pointed; sacculus with median ridge. Gnathos with lateral elements fused at middle. Uncus large, hoodlike, with deep median cleft. Vinculum with ventral median projection; saccus long, slender distally. Tegumen much longer than broad. Anellus membranous basally with a large sclerotized hood dorsoposteriorly. Aedeagus twice as long as harpe, straight, bulbous proximally, armed with row of teeth on opposite sides distally.

TYPES.—In the Musée du Congo Belge, Tervueren, Belgium (mormopis); in the British Museum (Natural History) (percna).

TYPE-LOCALITIES.—Belgian Congo, Elizabethville (mormopis); Gold Coast, Accra (percna).

DISTRIBUTION.—Belgian Congo, Hawaiian Islands (Oahu, Maui), India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Malaya, Formosa, Fiji, Fatu Hiva.

Fatu Hiva: Omoa, 11 Mar 1968, 1.

FOODS.—Furs, skins, woolen materials, feathers.

We have only a single male as listed above. No female is available for study. This widespread species is transported in commerce and is undoubtedly well established in the Marquesas Islands.

Comodica Meyrick, 1880b:254.

TYPE-SPECIES.—Comodica tetracercella Meyrick, 1880b:255; by monotypy.
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Clarke, J. F. Gates. 1986. "Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-485. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.416

Trichophaga mormopis

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Trichophaga mormopis is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1935. It is widely distributed from Africa to India, Sri Lanka, Malaya, Taiwan and Fiji. It was first recorded from Hawaii in 1944.

The wingspan is 6–8 mm.

The larvae feed on a variety of dead materials, including fur, skin, woolen materials and feathers.

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Trichophaga mormopis: Brief Summary

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Trichophaga mormopis is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1935. It is widely distributed from Africa to India, Sri Lanka, Malaya, Taiwan and Fiji. It was first recorded from Hawaii in 1944.

The wingspan is 6–8 mm.

The larvae feed on a variety of dead materials, including fur, skin, woolen materials and feathers.

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