Acompsia

Acompsia
Adult Acompsia cinerella specimen from Pieksämäki (Finland)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Gelechioidea
Family:	Gelechiidae
Subfamily:	Dichomeridinae
Genus:	Acompsia Hübner, 1825
Type species
Phalaena cinerella Clerck, 1759
Species
Many, see text
Synonyms
See text

Acompsia is a genus of the twirler moth family (Gelechiidae). Though it has once been assigned to the proposed subfamily "Anacampsinae" (here included in Gelechiinae), it is generally placed in the Dichomeridinae. Some authors include Telephila here as a subgenus, while others prefer to keep it distinct as its relationships are fairly obscure.^[1]

Species

Species of Acompsia are:^[2][3]

• Subgenus Acompsia Hübner, 1825
  • Acompsia cinerella
  • Acompsia pyrenaella Huemer & Karsholt, 2002
  • Acompsia antirrhinella (Millière, 1866)
  • Acompsia maculosella (Stainton, 1851)
  • Acompsia dimorpha Petry, 1904
  • Acompsia subpunctella Svensson, 1966
  • Acompsia delmastroella Huemer, 1998
  • Acompsia muellerrutzi Wehrli, 1925
  • Acompsia caucasella Huemer & Karsholt, 2002
  • Acompsia minorella (Rebel, 1899)
  • Acompsia tripunctella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
  • Acompsia ponomarenkoae Huemer & Karsholt, 2002
  • Acompsia schepleri Huemer & Karsholt, 2002
  • Acompsia fibigeri Huemer & Karsholt, 2002
  • Acompsia bidzilyai Huemer & Karsholt, 2002
• Subgenus Telephila Meyrick, 1923
  • Acompsia schmidtiellus (Heyden, 1848)
  • Acompsia syriella Huemer & Karsholt, 2002
• Unknown status
  • Acompsia tenebrosella

Former species

• Acompsia angulifera (Walsingham, 1897) (now in Cathegesis)
• Acompsia psoricopterella (Walsingham, 1892) (now in Cathegesis)
• Acompsia vinitincta (Walsingham, 1910) (now in Cathegesis)
• Acompsia jordanella (Rebel, 1911) (now in Oxypteryx)

Synonyms

Invalid scientific names (junior synonyms and others) of Brachmia are:^[4]

• Acampsia (lapsus)
• Accompsia Bruand, 1850 (unjustified emendation)
• Brachicrossata (lapsus)
• Brachycrossata Heinemann, 1870

Footnotes

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), ABRS (2008), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2001)
2. FE (2009), Wikispecies (2010-APR-30), and see references in Savela (2001)
3. "A review of the genus Acompsia Huebner, 1825, with description of new species (Gelechiidae)". Nota Lepidopterologica 25: 109–151. 2002.
4. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)

References

Data related to Acompsia at Wikispecies

• Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Telephila. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Acompsia (Acompsia) [sic]. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Acompsia. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Savela, Markku (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Acompsia. Version of 2001-NOV-08. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Huemer, P., 1998: A new endemic species of Acompsia from the Alps (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 30 (2): 515-521. Full article: