Wegneria

Wegneria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Hieroxestinae
Genus:	Wegneria Diakonoff, 1951[1]
Type species
*Wegneria cavernicola Diakonoff, 1951

Wegneria is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[2]

Species

Some species of this genus are:[3]

• Wegneria acervalis (Meyrick, 1914) (from Malawi)
• Wegneria astragalodes (Meyrick, 1922) (from Uganda)
• Wegneria cavernicola Diakonoff, 1951
• Wegneria cerodelta (Meyrick, 1911) (from India, Japan, Malaysia,[4] Korea, Taiwan, Thailand)
• Wegneria chrysophthalma (Meyrick, 1934) (from Uganda)
• Wegneria encharacta (Meyrick, 1915) (from India)
• Wegneria impotens (Meyrick, 1915) (from India)
• Wegneria lachanitis (Meyrick, 1906) (from India, Sri Lanka)
• Wegneria oxydesma (Meyrick, 1918) (from India)
• Wegneria plasturga (Meyrick, 1911) (from India)
• Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger 1871) (from Algeria, Canaries, Greece, Hungary and Ukraine)[5]
• Wegneria scaeozona (Meyrick, 1920) (from Kenya)
• Wegneria speciosa (Meyrick, 1914) (from Nigeria)
• Wegneria spherotoma (Meyrick, 1911) (from India)
• Wegneria subtilis (Diankonoff, 1955) (from New Guinea)
• Wegneria villiersi (Viette, 1955) (from Guinea)

References

• Diakonoff, 1951 . Zool. Meded. Leiden 31 : 131.

1. Fauna Europaea
2. Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
3. Afromoths
4. Robinson, 1980. Cave-dwelling Tineid moths; a taxonomic review of the world species (Lepidoptera : Tineidae). - TRANSACTIONS of the BRITISH CAVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 7 (2)
5. Zdenko & Buschmann, 2012. Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger, 1871), new records of Tineidae for Hungary and Central Europe (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) Microlepidoptera.hu 5: 39–42.