Tineina
“The Tineina contain the smallest of the Lepidoptera, and are best known as clothes moths. These clothe themselves at our expense in the warmest woollen garments, which they traverse in all directions, leaving behind a gnawed and worn-out path, so thin and bare as to yield to the slightest pressure. They also destroy furs, hair, feathers, and many other articles of domestic economy, and are the exterminating pests of zoological museums. To them we no doubt owe the destruction of the most perfect specimen of the Dodo known, which was once preserved in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford.” — Encyclopedia Britanica; 1893
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Lepidoptera: Moths and ButterfliesSource
The Encyclopedia Britannica, New Warner Edition (New York, NY: The Werner Company, 1893)
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