Montescardia tessulatellus (Zeller, 1846) is a animal in the Tineidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Montescardia tessulatellus (Zeller, 1846)

Montescardia tessulatellus (Zeller, 1846)

Montescardia tessulatellus is a 20–28 mm wingspan tineid moth found across most of Europe, absent from several western and southeastern regions.

Family
Genus
Montescardia
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Montescardia tessulatellus (Zeller, 1846)

Montescardia tessulatellus (Zeller, 1846), also referenced as Montescardia tessulatella, is a moth species belonging to the family Tineidae. This species has a wingspan ranging from 20 to 28 millimeters. It is distributed across most of Europe, but is absent from the Iberian Peninsula, Benelux, Britain, Ireland, the Balkans, and Greece.

Photo: (c) Michał Brzeziński, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Michał Brzeziński · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Tineidae Montescardia

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