Biology:Kessleria

Short description: Genus of moths

Kessleria
Kessleria alpmaritimae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Yponomeutidae
Subfamily:	Yponomeutinae
Genus:	Kessleria Nowicki, 1864
Species
See text
Synonyms
Hofmannia Heinemann & Wocke, 1877 Paradoxus Stainton, 1869 Circostola Meyrick, 1889 Euhyponomeutoides Gaj, 1954 (disputed) Parahyponomeuta Toll, 1941 (disputed)

Kessleria is a genus of moths of the family Yponomeutidae.

Species

• Subgenus Kessleria
  • Kessleria alpicella-group
    • Kessleria alpicella - (Stainton, 1851)
    • Kessleria mixta - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
  • Kessleria alternans-group
    • Kessleria alpmaritimae - Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
    • Kessleria alternans - (Staudinger, 1870)
    • Kessleria cottiensis - Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
    • Kessleria dimorpha - Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
    • Kessleria wehrlii - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
  • Kessleria petrobiella-group
    • Kessleria nivescens - Burmann, 1980
    • Kessleria petrobiella - (Zeller, 1868)
  • Kessleria albanica-group
    • Kessleria albanica - Friese, 1960
    • Kessleria burmanni - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria hauderi - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria insubrica - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria macedonica - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
  • Kessleria apenninica-group
    • Kessleria apenninica - Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
    • Kessleria brachypterella - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria brevicornuta - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria diabolica - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria pyrenaea - Friese, 1960
  • Kessleria zimmermanni-group
    • Kessleria albomaculata - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria caflischiella - (Frey, 1880)
    • Kessleria zimmermannii - Novicki, 1864
  • Kessleria albescens-group
    • Kessleria albescens - (Rebel, 1899)
    • Kessleria helvetica - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria inexpectata - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria klimeschi - Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
    • Kessleria orobiae - Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
• Subgenus Hofmannia Heinemann & Wocke, 1877
  • Kessleria fasciapennella - (Stainton, 1849)
  • Kessleria saxifragae - (Stainton, 1868)

Unplaced

• Kessleria copidota - (Meyrick, 1889)
• Kessleria corusca - Meyrick, 1914
• Kessleria insulella - Moriuti, 1977
• Kessleria malgassaella - Viette, 1955
• Kessleria neuguineae - Moriuti, 1981
• Kessleria nivosa - (Meyrick, 1938)
• Kessleria parnassiae - (Braun, 1940)
• Kessleria pseudosericella - Moriuti, 1977

Former species

• Kessleria longipenella - Friese, 1960

References

• Friese, G., 1960: Revision der paläarktischen Yponomeutidae unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Genitalien (Lepidoptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 10 (1–2): 1–131. Abstraft: [1].
• Huemer, P. & Tarmann, G.M., 1991: Westpaläarktische Gespinstmotten der Gattung Kessleria Nowicki: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Verbeitung (Lep., Yponomeutidae). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 81: 5–110. Full article: [2].
• Peter Huemer, Marko Mutanen 2015: Alpha taxonomy of the genus Kessleria Nowicki, 1864, revisited in light of DNA-barcoding (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). ZooKeys, 503: 89-133. doi:10.3897/zookeys.503.9590

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