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Sitotroga cerealella

(Olivier, 1789)
Arthropoda » Lepidoptera » Gelechiidae » Sitotroga cerealella
Common name (English)
Angoumois grain moth
Common name (Greek)
Αλουκίτης του σιταριού
Ηabitat
J1 Buildings

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Establishment status
Indoors
Establishment status detail

Alien:

Impacts
Negative

Grain is usually stored without any precautions against insect attack, being generally heaped on the floor of a room or building which has not been prepared in any way since the removal of the previous crop. The same room is also often in use for other purposes. Grain also becomes infected while waiting loosely piled before threshing, and on the other threshing-floors. This and several other grain infesting species occur very commonly (Morris 1937); Common in stored grain (Georghiou 1977); cereal pest (Gözüaçık et al. 2015).

Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Food contaminant – Food
Pathway detail

Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)

References

Bevan W (1919) Notes on agriculture in Cyprus and its products, 105 p.

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

Georghiou GP (1977) The insects and mites of Cyprus. With emphasis on species of economic importance to agriculture, forestry, man and domestic animals. Benaki Phytopathological Institute. Kiphissia, Athens Greece 347 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.

"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"
Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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