tineid


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Synonyms for tineid

small yellowish moths whose larvae feed on wool or fur

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Biology, Distribution and Diversity of Tineid Moths.
Both a fish and a tineid moth with fake headlike color patterns near the tail take their species name, beeblebroxi, from the intergalactic gadabout Zaphod Beeblebrox, who had two heads, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1980, Douglas Adams, Harmony Books).
He has gathered the information mainly from European collections of museums and private entomologist, but also from card files on the taxonomy, faunistics, and biology of tineids that his predecessor Gunther Patersen compiled and that he now continues.
His sources were mainly the European collections of museums and private entomologists, but also card files on the taxonomy, faunistics, and biology of tineids that he inherited from his predecessor and has continued and also stores on an electronic database.