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Family: Tineidae   Checklist Number: 0.000

Nemapogon asyntacta  (Meyrick, 1917)

Ardivachar, South Uist, Scotland, 2013. Adults reared from larvae which emerged from a container of "Dried Mixed Forest Mushrooms" (Suillus luteus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Auricula udae, Boletus edulis), packed in France but grown in Far East Asia. Identification Reinhard Gaedike (via Martin Honey), who states: " ... a surprise! The shape fully agrees with the fig. 1 in Robinson (1980) Entomologist's Gazette 31: 129-142: Nemapogon asyntacta (Meyrick, 1917), hitherto known from India (locus typicus) and from Tibet.

References: 
Robinson, G.S. (1980). The Himalayan Nemapogoninae (Lepidoptera: Tineidae), … Entomologist's Gazette, Vol. 31: 2, pp 129-142.

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