Nemapogon

Nemapogon
Adult Nemapogon variatella, Espoo, Finland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Nemapogoninae
Genus:	Nemapogon Schrank, 1802
Type species
Phalaena (Tinea) granella Linnaeus, 1758
Diversity
69 species
Synonyms
Numerous, see text

Nemapogon is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Nemapogoninae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily.^[1]

Species

As of 2007, 69 species of Nemapogon had been described. New ones are still being discovered on a regular basis:^[2]

Nemapogon acapnopennella (Clemens, 1863) (= N. minutipulnella, N. minutipulvella) Nemapogon agenjoi Petersen, 1959 (= N. hispanellus) Nemapogon agnathosella Gaedike, 2000 Nemapogon algerica Gaedike, 2009 Nemapogon alticolella Zagulajev, 1961 Nemapogon anatolica Gaedike, 1986 Nemapogon angulifasciella (Dietz, 1905) Nemapogon arcosuensis Gaedike, 2007 Nemapogon arenbergeri Gaedike, 1986 Nemapogon asyntacta (Meyrick, 1917) Nemapogon auropulvella (Chambers, 1873) (= N. auripulvella) Nemapogon bachmarensis Zagulajev, 1964 Nemapogon barikotellus Petersen, 1973 Nemapogon bidentata Xiao & Li, 2010 Nemapogon brandti Gaedike, 1986 Nemapogon caucasicus (Zagulajev, 1964) Nemapogon clematella (Fabricius, 1781) (= Alucita niveella, N. arcellus, N. auritinctella, N. clematea N. clematellus, N. punctella, N. repandella) Nemapogon cloacella – cork moth Nemapogon cyprica Gaedike, 1986 Nemapogon defectella (Zeller, 1873) Nemapogon defrisiensis (Zagulajev, 1964) Nemapogon diarthrota (Meyrick, 1936) Nemapogon echinata Gaedike, 2000 Nemapogon flabellata Xiao & Li, 2010 Nemapogon flavifrons Petersen, 1959 (= N. kabulianus) Nemapogon fungivorella (Benander, 1939) (= N. fungivorellus) Nemapogon fuscalbella (Chrétien, 1908) Nemapogon geniculatella (Dietz, 1905) Nemapogon gerasimovi Zagulajev, 1961 Nemapogon gliriella (Heyden, 1865) (= N. cachetiellus, N. ibericus ) Nemapogon granella – European grain moth Nemapogon gravosaellus Petersen, 1957 (= N. borshomi, N. gravosaella) Nemapogon grossi Gaedike, 2007 Nemapogon hispanica Petersen & Gaedike, 1992 Nemapogon hungaricus Gozmány, 1960 (= N. pliginskii) Nemapogon inconditella (Lucas, 1956) (= N. buckwelli, N. heydeni, N. thomasi) Nemapogon interstitiella (Dietz, 1905)

Nemapogon kashmirensis Robinson, 1980 Nemapogon kasyi Gaedike, 1986 Nemapogon koenigi Capuse, 1967 (= N. wolffiella) Nemapogon lagodechiellus Zagulajev, 1962 Nemapogon leechi Robinson, 1980 Nemapogon levantinus Petersen, 1961 Nemapogon mesoplaca (Meyrick, 1919) Nemapogon meridionella (Zagulajev 1962) (= N. meridionalis) Nemapogon molybdanella (Dietz, 1905) Nemapogon multistriatella (Dietz, 1905) Nemapogon nevadella (Caradja, 1920) Nemapogon nevellus Zagulajev, 1963 Nemapogon nigralbella (Zeller, 1859) (= N. nigralbellus) Nemapogon ningshanensis Xiao & Li, 2010 Nemapogon ophrionella (Dietz, 1905) Nemapogon orientalis Petersen, 1961 (= N. falstriella) Nemapogon oregonella (Busck, 1900) Nemapogon palmella (Chretien 1908) (= N. oueddarella) Nemapogon picarella (Clerck, 1759) (= N. acerella, N. picarellus, N. rigaella) Nemapogon quercicolella Nemapogon reisseri Petersen & Gaedike, 1983 Nemapogon rileyi (Dietz, 1905) (= N. atriflua) Nemapogon roburella (Dietz, 1905) Nemapogon robusta Gaedike, 2000 Nemapogon ruricolella (Stainton, 1859) (= N. cochylidella) Nemapogon sardicus Gaedike, 1983 Nemapogon scholzi Sutter, 2000 Nemapogon scutifera Gaedike, 2007 Nemapogon signatellus Petersen, 1957 Nemapogon similella Gaedike, 2007 Nemapogon somchetiella Zagulajev, 1961 Nemapogon teberdellus (Zagulajev 1963) (= N. georgiellus) Nemapogon tylodes (Meyrick, 1919) Nemapogon variatella (Clemens, 1859) (= N. apicisignatella ) Nemapogon vartianae Gaedike, 1986

Synonyms

Junior synonyms of Nemapogon are:^[3]

• Anemapogon Zaguljaev, 1963
• "Brosis" Hübner, 1806 (suppressed name)
• Brosis Hübner, 1822 (non Billberg, 1820: preoccupied)
• Diaphthirusa Hübner, [1825]
• Longiductus Zaguljaev, 1964
• Nematopogon Agassiz, 1847 (unjustified emendation; non Zeller, 1839: preoccupied)
• Paranemapogon Zaguljaev, 1964
• Petalographis Zaguljaev,1962

The genus name Brosis was first proposed by J. Hübner in 1806, but in a book – the famous Tentamen determinsationis ("Preliminary examination") – that was essentially an immense discussion paper and not a valid work of zoological nomenclature. When Hübner came to validly erect the genus in his 1822 genus list (Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichnis), it had already been used by G.J. Billberg for what is nowadays considered the Incurvariidae genus Incurvaria.^[4]

Footnotes

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004c), FE (2009), and see references in Svela (2009)
2. FE (2009), Robinson [2010]
3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004c), ABRS (2008), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
4. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004ab)

References

• Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Nemapogon. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-MAY-06.
• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Nemapogon. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-06.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – "Brosis" Hübner, 1804. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-06.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Brosis Hübner, 1822. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-06.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004c): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Nemapogon. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-06.
• Robinson, Gaden S. [2010]: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2010-MAY-06.
• Savela, Markku (2005): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Nemapogon. Version of 2003-DEC-27. Retrieved 2010-MAY-06.