Google
WWW MPG website only

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

Tineidae
300037 – 0428   Setomorpha rutella Zeller, 1852
             Tropical Tobacco Moth

© Jon & Nancy Rapp
Description/
Field Marks:
See Davis & Davis (2020)
Genitalia: See Davis & Davis (2020)
Similar Species:
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:
  • rutella Zeller, 1852 (Setomorpha) - MONA 1983: 0428
      Type locality: Africa.
  • cariosella (Dietz, 1905) (Epilegis)
  • contestata Meyrick, 1922 (Setomorpha)
  • corticinella Snellen, 1885 (Setomorpha)
  • discipunctella Rebel, 1894 (Setomorpha)
  • dryas (Butler, 1881) (Chrestotes)
  • euryspoda (Lower, 1918) (Trisyntopa)
  • fractiliniella (Dietz, 1905) (Apotomia)
  • inamoenella Zeller, 1873 (Setomorpha)
  • majorella Dietz, 1905 (Setomorpha)
  • margalaestriata Keuchenius, 1917 (Setomorpha)
  • multimacullela (Chambers, 1878) (Gelechia)
  • nitella Voute, 1935 (Setomorpha) missp.
  • operosella Zeller, 1873 (Setomorpha)
  • ruderella Zeller, 1873 (Setomorpha)
  • rupicella Zeller, 1852 (Setomorpha)
  • sigmoidella Dietz, 1905 (Setomorpha)
  • tineoides Dammerman, 1919 (Setomorpha)
  • transversestrigella (Dietz, 1905) (Semiota)
  • References
    • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
    • Davis D.R. & M.M. Davis, 2020. New Species and Records of Moths from African Caves (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 122 (3): 577-594; figs. 5, 11, 23–28, 48–55.
    • Species Page at AfroMoths
    • Species Page at BugGuide.Net
    • Zeller, P.C., 1952. Lepidoptera microptera, quae J.A. Wahlberg in Caffrorum terra collegit. Kongl. Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar, [ser. 3: t. 40]: 94.
    Setomorpha rutella
    - gen. - © Royal Tyler
    Setomorpha rutella
    - gen. - © Royal Tyler
    Setomorpha rutella
    © Jon & Nancy Rapp
    Setomorpha rutella
    © Jim Vargo
    Setomorpha rutella
    22mm – © Mississippi Entomological Museum
    Setomorpha rutella
    LG(cc) Miss. Ent. Mus.

    Moth Photographers Group  at the  Mississippi Entomological Museum  at the  Mississippi State University

    Send suggestions, or submit photographs to Webmaster — Moth Photographers Group

    Database design and scripting support provided by Mike Boone