Ephestia kuehniella

Zeller, 1879

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Common name (English)

Mediterranean flour moth, Mill moth

Ηabitat

J1 Buildings

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Establishment status

Indoors

Establishment status detail

Cryptogenic: Casual

First detection year

1937

Impacts

Negative

in dried fruit (Morris 1937); stored cereal pest (Gözüaçık et al. 2015).

Online resource

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/lepindex/search/detail…

Pathway

3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Food contaminant – Food

Pathway detail

Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)

References

Morris HM (1937) Injurious insects of Cyprus. Agricultural Department of Cyprus, Bulletin 4 (Ent. Ser. ) 21 pp.

Gözüaçık C, Güllü M, Konuksal A, Yücel A, Hekimhan H (2015) Insect species of stored cereal in Northern Cyprus [Poster presentation]. Conference: 2nd International Symposium for Agriculture and Food Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia.

Huemer P, Özden Ö, Rennwald E, Barton I, Junnilainen J, Hausmann A, van Nieukerken EJ, Hebert PDN (2026) Well-Known, Misidentified, or Unnamed? A DNA Barcode-Based Reassessment of the Lepidoptera Fauna of Cyprus Supported by Morphology. Insects 17(1): 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects17010004