Nematopogon

"Nematopogon" was also invalidly established by Agassiz in 1847 as an unjustified emendation for the fungus moth genus Nemapogon.

Nematopogon
Adult Nematopogon metaxella at Commanster (Belgian Ardennes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Adelidae
Subfamily:	Nematopogoninae
Genus:	Nematopogon Zeller, 1839
Type species
Nematopogon schwarziellus Zeller, 1839
Species
Several, see text

Nematopogon is a genus of the fairy longhorn moth family (Adelidae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Nematopogoninae, of which it is the type genus.^[1]

Selected species

Species of Nematopogon include:^[2]

• Nematopogon adansoniella (Villers, 1789)
• Nematopogon chalcophyllis (Meyrick, 1935)
• Nematopogon distinctus (Yasuda, 1957)
• Nematopogon dorsigutellus (Erschoff, 1877)
• Nematopogon magna (Zeller, 1878) (= N. magnus, N. variella, N. variellus)
• Nematopogon metaxella (Hübner, 1813) (= N. metaxellus)
• Nematopogon pilella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (= N. pilellus)
• Nematopogon robertella (Clerck, 1759)
• Nematopogon schwarziellus Zeller, 1839 (= N. schwarziella)
• Nematopogon sericinellus Zeller, 1847
• Nematopogon swammerdamella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Nematopogon taiwanella Kozlov, 2001

Footnotes

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)
2. FE (2009), Wikispecies (2010-MAY-09)

References

Media related to Nematopogon at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Nematopogon at Wikispecies

• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Nematopogon. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Nematopogon. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.