Bird Nest Moth Profile | Bird Nest Moth Ventral | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Tineid Moth (:Tineoidea Tineidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Bird Nest Moth (Monopis crocicapitella) | ||||
This Photo: | Head | ||||
Other name: | Black and brown tineid | ||||
Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III & Rebecca Hamdorf for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Tineids usually eat dead organic matter, like clothes, and in this case Bird's Nests | |||||
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