Biology:Parornix

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Short description: Genus of moths

Parornix
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Subfamily: Parornichinae
Genus: Parornix
Spuler, 1910
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Alfaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Betaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Deltaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Gammaornix Kuznetzov, 1979
Parornix

Parornix is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae. The genus was raised by the German entomologist Arnold Spuler in 1910.

Species

  • Parornix acuta Triberti, 1980
  • Parornix alni Kumata, 1965
  • Parornix alpicola (Wocke, 1877)
  • Parornix alta (Braun, 1925)
  • Parornix altaica Noreika & Bidzilya, 2006
  • Parornix ampliatella (Stainton, 1850)
  • Parornix anglicella (Stainton, 1850)
  • Parornix anguliferella (Zeller, 1847)
  • Parornix arbitrella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix arbutifoliella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix asiatica Noreika, 1991
  • Parornix atripalpella Wahlström, 1979
  • Parornix betulae (Stainton, 1854)
  • Parornix bifurca Triberti, 1998
  • Parornix boreasella (Clemens, 1864)
  • Parornix carpinella (Frey, 1863)
  • Parornix compressa Triberti, 1990
  • Parornix compsumpta Triberti, 1987
  • Parornix concussa (Meyrick, 1933)
  • Parornix conspicuella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix cotoneasterella Kuznetzov, 1978
  • Parornix crataegifoliella (Clemens, 1860)
  • Parornix devoniella (Stainton, 1850)
  • Parornix dubitella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix ermolaevi Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Parornix errantella (Walsingham, 1897)
  • Parornix extrema Kuznetzov & Baryschnikova, 2003
  • Parornix fagivora (Frey, 1861)
  • Parornix festinella (Clemens, 1860)
  • Parornix finitimella (Zeller, 1850)
  • Parornix fragilella Triberti, 1981
  • Parornix fumidella Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Parornix geminatella (Packard, 1869)
  • Parornix hastata Triberti, 1990
  • Parornix impressipenella (Bilimek, 1867)
  • Parornix incerta Triberti, 1982
  • Parornix innotata (Walsingham, 1907)
  • Parornix inusitatumella (Chambers, 1873)
  • Parornix kalmiella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix kugitangi Noreika, 1991
  • Parornix kumatai Ermolaev, 1993
  • Parornix loganella (Stainton, 1848)
  • Parornix loricata Triberti, 1998
  • Parornix maliphaga Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Parornix maura Triberti, 1998
  • Parornix melanotella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix micrura Walsingham, 1914
  • Parornix minor Kumata, 1965
  • Parornix mixta (Triberti, 1980)
  • Parornix multimaculata (Matsumura, 1931)
  • Parornix obliterella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix oculata (Triberti, 1979)
  • Parornix ornatella Triberti, 1981
  • Parornix peregrinaella (Darlington, 1949)
  • Parornix persicella Danilevsky, 1955
  • Parornix petiolella (Frey, 1863)
  • Parornix polygrammella (Wocke, 1862)
  • Parornix preciosella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix quadripunctella (Clemens, 1861)
  • Parornix retrusella Kuznetzov, 1979
  • Parornix scoticella (Stainton, 1850)
  • Parornix spiraeifoliella (Braun, 1918)
  • Parornix strobivorella (Dietz, 1907)
  • Parornix subfinitimella Kuznetzov, 1956
  • Parornix szocsi (Gozmány, 1952)
  • Parornix tenella (Rebel, 1919)
  • Parornix texanella (Busck, 1906)
  • Parornix torquillella (Zeller, 1850)
  • Parornix traugotti Svensson, 1976
  • Parornix trepidella (Clemens, 1860)
  • Parornix turcmeniella Kuznetzov, 1956
  • Parornix vicinella (Dietz, 1907)


Taxonomy

The genus Paronix comes from para, meaning alongside and ornix named after the genus Ornix Treitschke, 1833, which refers to ornis, a bird. The genus Ornix originally included a wide range of feathery-winged microlepidoptera in the Coleophoridae and the Gracillariidae. Ornix was an early synonym of the genus Coleophora as a number of moths were named after birds. The feathery-winged moths were later restricted to Paronix. [1]

Reference

  1. Emmet, A Maitland (1991). The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera. Their history and meaning. Colchester: Harley Books. pp. 63, 74 &75. ISBN 0 946589 35 6. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7139465 entry