Ephestia elutella (Hübner, 1796)

Tsvetkov, Eugene, 2020, Narrow-winged pyralids (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) of Leningrad Province and the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, Zootaxa 4890 (3), pp. 361-374 : 371

Ephestia elutella (Hübner, 1796)

( Sievers 1852, 1856, 1858, 1863; Erschoff 1880; Kawrigin 1894; Kozhanchikov 1958; Lvovsky 1994; J̹rivete et al. 2000)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 ♀, Staryj Petergof (A. Stekolnikov); 2 ♀, St. Petersburg, 19.ix.1937, 17.xi.1980; 1 Ƌ, St. Petersburg, confectionary, 16.xi.1960 (A. Zagulyaev); 1 Ƌ, St. Petersburg, 5.vi.1963 (Tsyganenko); 1 Ƌ, Privetnenskoe, 3.viii.1965 ( Pastukhov ) .

REMARKS. Imagoes are found in buildings or near them all the year round (in food factories, stores, flats etc.). Some records don’t refer to anthropogenic biotopes. So, I. Kozhanchikov (1958) noted, that a specimen had been taken from sandy hills overgrown with heather (Komarovo, 9.vii.1955).

DISTRIBUTION. A transcontinental synanthropic species.