Ephestia elutella

(Hübner, 1796)

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Common name (English)

Cacao moth, Tobacco moth, Warehouse moth

Ηabitat

J1 Buildings

I1 Arable

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Establishment status

Indoors

Establishment status detail

Cryptogenic: Casual

First detection year

1927

Impacts

Negative

This insect causes some damage to stored grain but is not one of the most serious pests. This pest is widely distributed having been carried from country to country in grain, seeds, etc. (Morris 1937); reared from flax seed, dried apricots (Georghiou 1977).

Online resource

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

Pathway

3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Seed contaminant – Seed

3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Food contaminant – Food

Pathway detail

Speculated based on Morris (1937) (Demetriou pers. comm.)

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.

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