COMMON NAME FOR SEVERAL SPECIES OF MOTH WHOSE LARVAE EAT ANIMAL FIBRES INCLUDING CLOTHING AND OTHER FABRICS, E.G.: NIDITINEA FUSCELLA, TINEA PELLIONELLA, TINEA BISSELLIELLA, TRICHOPHAGA TAPETZELLA, MONOPIS CROCICAPITELLA
Clothes moth or clothing moth is the common name for several species of moth considered to be pests, whose larvae eat animal fibres (hairs), including clothing and other fabrics.
These include:
Tineola bisselliella, the common clothes moth or webbing clothes moth
Trichophaga tapetzella, the carpet moth or tapestry moth
Monopis crocicapitella, pale-backed clothes moth. Particularly destructive of textiles, and found to have increased dramatically in south-west England in 2018.