Genus of moths
Larva in the case typical of the genus. It can turn around in the case to protrude its head and legs at either end and drag the case in either direction. Tinea genus of the fungus moth family , Tineidae . Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Tineinae . As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily and family. Established as one of the first subgroups of "Phalaena " , it used to contain many species of Tineidae that are nowadays placed in other genera, as well as a few moths nowadays placed elsewhere.[ 1]
Selected species
Species of Tinea include:[ 2]
Tinea accusatrix Meyick, 1916 (New Zealand)Tinea analytica Tinea antricola Meyrick, 1924 (India, Sumatra, Indonesia and Malaysia)Tinea apicimaculella Chambers, 1875 (North America)Tinea atmogramma Meyrick, 1927 (New Zealand)Tinea atriflua Tinea basifasciella Ragonot, 1895 Tinea behrensella Chambers, 1875 Tinea bothniella Svensson, 1953 Tinea borboropis Tinea caerula Tinea carnariella Clemens, 1859 Tinea catalytica Tinea chaotica Meyrick, 1893 Tinea chloroceros Tinea columbariella Wocke, 1877 (cosmopolitan)Tinea conferta Meyrick, 1914 (New Zealand)Tinea conspecta Philpott, 1931 (New Zealand)Tinea conchylitis Tinea coracopis Tinea corynephora Turner, 1927 Tinea croceoverticella Chambers, 1876 Tinea criochrysa Tinea delotoma Tinea dividua Philpott, 1928 Tinea drymonoma Turner, 1923 (Australia)Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1859 (New Zealand)Tinea extracta Tinea flavescentella Haworth, 1828 Tinea flavofimbriella (Chrétien, 1925) Tinea grumella Zeller, 1873 Tinea gypsomicta Tinea holocapna Tinea irrepta Braun, 1926 Tinea isodonta Tinea lanella Pierce & Metcalfe, 1934 Tinea mandarinella Dietz, 1905 Tinea melanoptycha (Turner, 1939) Tinea messalina Robinson, 1979 Tinea misceella Chambers, 1873 Tinea montezuma Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859 Tinea niveocapitella Chambers, 1875 Tinea occidentella Chambers, 1880 (California, Baja California)Tinea omichlopis Meyrick, 1928 (= T. nonimella )Tinea pallescentella Stainton, 1851 (= T. galeatella ) (from Argentina)Tinea oxymora Tinea phaeonephela Tinea platysaris Tinea pellionella Tinea poecilella Rebel, 1940 Tinea porphyropa Meyrick, 1927 (Sumatra, Indonesia and Malaysia)Tinea porphyrota Meyrick, 1893 (tentatively placed here)Tinea praeumbrata Tinea prensoria Meyrick, 1931 (from Chile)Tinea semifulvella Tinea sequens Meyrick, 1919 (from Guyana)Tinea steueri Petersen, 1966 Tinea straminiella Chambers, 1873 Tinea svenssoni Opheim, 1965 (Northern Europe & America)Tinea thoracestrigella Chambers, 1876 Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917 (cosmopolitan)Tinea tridectis Meyrick, 1893 Tinea trinotella Tinea tylodes Tinea unomaculella Chambers, 1875 Tinea xanthostictella Dietz, 1905 Tinea xenodes Meyrick, 1909 (from Bolivia)
Species formerly placed here include for example Ceratobia oxymora Tinea at one time or another.
Synonyms
Junior synonyms of Tinea are:[ 3]
Acedes Hübner, [1825] Autoses Hübner, [1825] Chrysoryctis Meyrick, 1886 Dystinea Börner in Brohmer, 1925 Monopina [verification needed Zagulyaev , 1955Scleroplasta Meyrick, 1919 Ses Hübner, 1822 Taenia (lapsus non Linnaeus, 1758: preoccupied ) Tinaea (lapsus ) Tinearia Rafinesque, 1815 (unjustified emendation ; non Schellenberg, 1803: preoccupied ) Tineopis Zagulyaev, 1960 Edosa Tinea ; it is here treated as doubtfully distinct genus for the time being.[ 4]
^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
^ ABRS (2008), FE (2009), Robinson [2010], and see references in Savela (2009)
^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), ABRS (2008), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
^ FE (2009), Robinson [2010], and see references in Savela (2009)
References
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