Insect pests of food.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Food.
Date:
1943]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Insect pests of food. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Achroia innotata. (a) Subspecies lankella Corbet & Tams, 1943. (Text-figs. 83, 84.) Synonyms: none. Distribution : Ceylon. (0) Subspecies sakaiella Corbet & Tams, 1943. (Text-fig. 164.) Synonyms: none. Distribution : Malay Peninsula. (c) Subspecies innotata (Walker, 1864). (Text-fig. 128.) Synonyms: none. _ Distribution : Borneo, Tahiti. Larval food : honey-combs in bee-hives. Coreyra cephalonica (Stainton, 1866). (Text-figs. 27, 85, 86, 129, 165.) Synonyms: @conomellus (Mann, 1872) ; translineella Hampson, 1901. Distribution : Cosmopolitan. | Larval food : dried fruit, seeds, and rice. Trachylepidia fructicassiella Ragonot, 1887. (Text-figs. 28, 87, 88, 130, 166.) Synonyms: none. ' Distribution : Egypt to Ceylon and India. Larval food : seed pods of Cassia fistula. Doloessa viridis Zeller, 1848. (Text-figs. 29, 89, 90, 131, 167.) Synonyms : figurana (Walker, 1863) ; ornata (Wileman), 1910. Distribution : Indo-Australian region. Larval food: fallen leaves of Cocos nucifera. Arenipses sabella Hampson, 1901. (Text-figs. 30, 91, 92, 132, 168.) Synonyms: none. Distribution : Egypt, Arabia, and Persian Gulf. Larval food: stored dates. Aphomia soeiella (Linnzus, 1758). (Text-figs. 31, 32, 93, 94, 133, 169.) Synonyms : colonella (Linnzeus, 1758) ; tribunella ([Schiffermiiller & Denis], 1775) ; socia (Fabricius, 1798) ; colonatus (Haworth, 1809) ; rufinella Krulikowsky, 1909. Distribution : cosmopolitan, but apparently absent from the tropics. Larval food : honey-comb and bee-brood of humble bees and, less frequently, the larvee are found in the nests of wasps. Aphomia gularis (Zeller, 1877). (Text-figs. 95, 96, 134, 170.) Synonyms : tenebrosus (Butler, 1879) ; modesta (Butler, 1879). Distribution : India, China, and Japan, but found occasionally in Britain, Kurope, and North America. ; Larval food: seeds and nuts. Key for the Separation of Species of Pyrahdex. 1. Upperside hindwing without a pecten of hairs on the lower margin of the cell. indwing vein 8 free. Upperside hindwing usually with at least indications of two narrow irregular lines running across the wing. Male without a costal fold or a costal hair-tuft on the underside of the forewing...... PYRALINE. 2. Upperside hindwing with a well-defined pecten of hairs on the lower margin of the cell towards the base. Hindwing vein 8 anastomosed with vein 7 for part of its length. Upperside hindwing unmarked except for a darkening towards the apex in some species. Male with a costal fold or a costal hair- tuft on the underside of the forewing in some species ..........2.2eeeeeee 10