Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Tineidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Archinemapogon | |
Similar Triaxomera parasitella, Haplotinea insectella, Nemaxera, Haplotinea ditella, Tinea semifulvella | ||
Archinemapogon yildizae is a moth of the Tineidae family. It was described by Koçak in 1981. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, the Benelux, the Iberian Peninsula and most of the Balkan Peninsula. The habitat consists of birch woodlands.
The wingspan is 14–21 mm. Adults are on wing from May to July.
The larvae feed on bracket fungi (Fomes or Piptorus species) growing on Betula.
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