Cadra cautella

Walker, 1863

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Common name (English)

Almond moth, Tropical warehouse moth

Ηabitat

J1 Buildings

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Establishment status

Indoors

Establishment status detail

Cryptogenic: Casual

First detection year

1924

Impacts

Negative

In dried fruit (Morris 1937); reared from carob cake, young green carobs (Georghiou 1977).

Online resource

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

Pathway

3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Food contaminant – Food

Pathway detail

CBD pathway per EASIN (2023).

References

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.

EASIN (2023) European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN). https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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