Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789)

Angoumois Grain Moth
35.0340 (B&F: 749)

»Suborder: Glossata
»Superfamily: Gelechioidea
  »Family: Gelechiidae
   »Subfamily: Apatetrinae
    »Tribe: Hypercalliini

Synonym(s):

Sitotroga hordei (Beckmann, 1790)

Status and ecology:

National Status: Adventive

Only one specimen ever found in Sussex, in a flat in Bexhill on 23rd June 1990 and associated with dried flowers. In the absence of any other county record it is probable this was an introduction. (Pratt, 2011).

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