Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia
- 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Description
Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Stainton, 1849)
COMMON NAME(S): Brown House Moth or Large Common Tubic moth.
SYNONYM(S): Gelechia improbella Walker, 1869a; Litoides punctipinguinella Bruand, 1856.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada (British Columbia), Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA (California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada), Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A stored products pest as larva. Probably originally native to Asia, the synanthropic Brown House Moth has been introduced to other regions by human activity and is found almost worldwide today. Caterpillars feed on cereals (including maize, oatmeal, pearl barley and rice) and other seeds, potatoes, furs and dog biscuits.
SOURCES: Zambia Plant Pests and Disease Act 2017.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Stainton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Oecophoridae
- Genus
- Hofmannophila
- Species
- pseudospretella
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Stainton, 1849) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1869 a) Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. E. W. Janson, London, 112 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 18416115] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 21064
- Bruand, T. (1856) Observations entomologiques faites en 1855. Memoires de la Societe libre d'Emulation de Doubs, Series 2, 7, 108 - 111. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 37110260]
- Zambia Plant Pests and Disease Act (2017) Ministry of Legal Affairs, Government of the Republic of Zambia, Lusaka. Available from: http: // www. parliament. gov. zm / sites / default / files / documents / acts / Plant % 20 Pests % 20 and % 2 Diseases % 20 Act. pdf (accessed 21 August 2023)