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Ephestia kuehniella

Zeller, 1879
Arthropoda » Lepidoptera » Pyralidae » Ephestia kuehniella
Common name (English)
Mediterranean flour moth, Mill moth
Ηabitat
J1 Buildings

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Establishment status
Indoors
Establishment status detail

Cryptogenic:

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.

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