Tinea (moth)

Tinea
Case-bearing clothes moth (T. pellionella), adult from Commanster (Belgian Ardennes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Tineinae
Genus:	Tinea Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Phalaena (Tinea) pellionella Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Several, see text
Synonyms
Numerous, see text

Tinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Tineinae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily and family. Established as one of the very first subgroups of "Phalaena", it used to contain many species of Tineidae that are nowadays placed in other genera, as well as a few moths nowadays placed elsewhere.^[1]

Selected species

Species of Tinea include:^[2]

Tinea apicimaculella Tinea basifasciella Ragonot, 1895 Tinea behrensella Chambers, 1875 Tinea bothniella Svensson, 1953 Tinea carnariella Clemens, 1859 Tinea chaotica Meyrick, 1893 Tinea columbariella Wocke, 1877 Tinea corynephora Turner, 1927 Tinea croceoverticella Chambers, 1876 Tinea drymonoma Turner, 1923 Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1859 Tinea flavescentella Haworth, 1828 Tinea flavofimbriella (Chrétien, 1925) Tinea grumella Zeller, 1873 Tinea irrepta Braun, 1926 Tinea lanella Pierce & Metcalfe, 1934 Tinea mandarinella Dietz, 1905 Tinea melanoptycha (Turner, 1939) Tinea messalina Robinson, 1979

Tinea misceella Chambers, 1873 Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859 Tinea niveocapitella Chambers, 1875 Tinea occidentella Chambers, 1880 Tinea omichlopis Meyrick, 1928 (= T. nonimella) Tinea pallescentella Stainton, 1851 (= T. galeatella) Tinea pellionella – case-bearing clothes moth Tinea poecilella Rebel, 1940 Tinea porphyrota Meyrick, 1893 (tentatively placed here) Tinea semifulvella Tinea steueri Petersen, 1966 Tinea straminiella Chambers, 1873 Tinea svenssoni Opheim, 1965 Tinea thoracestrigella Chambers, 1876 Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917 Tinea tridectis Meyrick, 1893 Tinea trinotella Tinea unomaculella Chambers, 1875 Tinea xanthostictella Dietz, 1905

Species formerly placed here include for example Ceratobia oxymora. Before the 19th century, many unrelated moths were placed in Tinea at one time or another.

Synonyms

Junior synonyms of Tinea are:^[3]

• Acedes Hübner, [1825]
• Autoses Hübner, [1825]
• Chrysoryctis Meyrick, 1886
• Dystinea Börner in Brohmer, 1925
• Monopina Zagulyaev, 1955
• Scleroplasta Meyrick, 1919
• Ses Hübner, 1822
• Taenia (lapsus; non Linnaeus, 1758: preoccupied)
• Tinaea (lapsus)
• Tinearia Rafinesque, 1815 (unjustified emendation; non Schellenberg, 1803: preoccupied)
• Tineopis Zagulyaev, 1960

Edosa is sometimes included in Tinea; it is here treated as doubtfully distinct genus for the time being.^[4]

Footnotes

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

References

• Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Tinea. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-MAY-03.
• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Tinea. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-03.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Tinea. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• Robinson, Gaden S. [2010]: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Tinea. Version of 2009-AUG-20. Retrieved 2010-MAY-03.