12.030 Tinea pallescentella (Large Pale Clothes Moth)
ws: 12-25mm; all year; fairly common throughout UK
ID: The rather worn individual shown here is the only specimen of this species I have obtained so far. However it does show its features better than many images available on-line. The image at http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=7777+7777+0410+1172 is better. Two distinctive features not mentioned in the description in MBGBI2 are the pale dorsal streak and the contrastingly dark tegulae.
Dissection
§1 St Agnes, Isles of Scilly; 18/10/2010; female; fw9.8mm
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published Feb 2011 (§1)