Scardia (moth)

Scardia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Scardiinae
Genus: Scardia
Treitschke, 1830
Type species
Phycis boleti
Fabricius, 1798
Diversity
6–9 species
Synonyms

See text

Scardia is a genus of the fungus moth family (Tineidae). Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Scardiinae, of which it is the type genus. Several of the species placed here in earlier times have been moved to other genera of the subfamily, e.g. Amorophaga, Montescardia and Morophaga.[1]

Species

The species placed in Scardia are:[2]

Synonyms

Junior synonyms of Scardia are:[3]

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
  2. Robinson [2010]
  3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009)

References


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