The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·522704SpeciesInsecta201 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Butterflies and Moths
  7. ›Bagworms, Clothes Moths, and Allies
  8. ›Fungus Moths, Clothes Moths, & Allies
  9. ›Psychoides
Fern Smut
Plate 1 of 2. (c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · via iNaturalist

Fern Smut

Psychoides filicivora

Psychoides filicivora is a moth of the family Tineidae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. First found in Ireland in 1909, it is possible that the moth was introduced from imported ferns from Asia. The moth can be found from the spring though to autumn in a series of generations and the species overwinters as a larva.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Psychoides filicivora in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 522704.