Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager vs Cocoa moth

Anisognathus somptuosus compared with Ephestia elutella

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager	Cocoa moth
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class	Aves (Birds)	Insecta (Insects)
Order	Passeriformes (Songbirds)	Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Family	Thraupidae	Pyralidae
Genus	Anisognathus	Ephestia
Species	Anisognathus somptuosus	Ephestia elutella

Evolutionary Relationship

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager and Cocoa moth share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager

LC — Least Concern

Cocoa moth

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager	Cocoa moth
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager

Habitat

Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, Norway, and Venezuela.

Cocoa moth

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, deserts and xeric shrublands, and Mediterranean forests and woodlands spanning the Afrotropic and Palearctic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Cabo Verde), Asia (4 countries), Europe (30 countries), and North America (Canada, United States).

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus) is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List. Widespread and abundant across its range, with stable populations and no immediate conservation concerns.

Cocoa moth

The cocoa moth (Ephestia elutella) is a small moth in the family Pyralidae with a wingspan of 14–22 millimetres, cosmopolitan in distribution as a stored-product pest. The species is native to Europe but has spread globally through trade in stored commodities, particularly cocoa beans (from which its common name derives), dried fruits, tobacco, grain, nuts, and confectionery. Adults are greyish-brown with subtle patterning on the forewings; they are short-lived and do not feed as adults. Females lay eggs directly in or near food material; larvae are creamy-white with dark head capsules and spin silken webbing through infested commodities as they feed, causing significant post-harvest economic losses. Like other pyralid stored-product moths, E. elutella is a major pest of food processing and warehousing facilities worldwide, thriving in warm, dry storage conditions with high carbohydrate content. It has been recorded from at least 30 European countries and is present on all inhabited continents. Control relies on temperature treatment, pheromone-baited monitoring traps, and chemical insecticides, though resistance to some compounds has been reported. The species is classified as Least Concern by the IUCN, reflecting its global distribution and thriving populations in human-modified environments. Its economic importance has made it the subject of extensive research into stored-product pest biology, chemical ecology, and integrated pest management strategies.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇳🇴 Norway