Anagasta kuehniella
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Mediterranean flour moth
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| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Ephestia |
| NCBI taxid: |  40079
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| Research interest: | Genetics, Storage pest |
Ephestia (=Anagasta) kuehniella, early model of developmental genetics, has become a model for Lepidoptera cytogenetics and sex chromosome research. A stock center with 28 strains including various eye-color and wing-pattern mutations, mostly highly inbred, is available at Institute of Entomology BC ASCR, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep. Stored product pest, often used as a model for testing biopesticides and pheromone monitoring; eggs used for mass rearing of parazitods to be used in biological control programs.
