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]

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

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