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

↑ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
↑ ABRS (2008), FE (2009), Robinson [2010], and see references in Savela (2009)
↑ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), ABRS (2008), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
↑ FE (2009), Robinson [2010], and see references in Savela (2009)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tinea.

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.

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