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Large Clothes Moth
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Large Clothes Moth

Morophaga choragella

Morophaga choragella is a moth of the Tineidae family. It is found in Europe.

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Description

The wingspan is 18–32 mm. It is a brown-speckled moths. The antennae are wire-shaped and a little over half as long as the forewings. The head is covered with short, grey-brown, hair-like scales. The thorax is brown with lighter sides. The forewings are rounded, the base color is yellow-brown with darker markings, also some small, white spots. In the middle of the wing there is a comma-shaped, darker spot from the back edge, this is edged with white. The forewing has fringes of dark grey-brown with a narrow, light middle stripe and four narrow, white fields. The hind wing is grey, with short hair fringes that are light grey with a darker band in the middle. The larva is dirty yellowish white with a dark brown head.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 324695.