Biology:Niditinea

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Short description: Genus of moths

Niditinea
Niditinea.fuscella.mounted.jpg
Brown-dotted clothes moth (N. fuscella),
adult specimen
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Tineinae
Genus: Niditinea
Petersen, 1957
Type species
Tinea fuscipunctella
Haworth, 1828
Diversity
12–13 species
Synonyms

[1]
"Tineidia" Zagulayev, 1960 (nomen nudum)

Niditinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae.[2]

Species

The 12 or 13 species currently placed in Niditinea are:[3]

  • Niditinea baryspilas (Meyrick, 1937) (= N. unipunctella)
  • Niditinea contrariella Zeller, 1877
  • Niditinea erschoffi Zagulayev, 1983
  • Niditinea fuscella – brown-dotted clothes moth
  • Niditinea nigrocapitella Zagulajev, 1960
  • Niditinea orleansella (Chambers, 1873)
  • Niditinea pallidorsella (Zeller, 1877)
  • Niditinea piercella (Bentinck, 1935) (= N. ignotella (Zagulajev, 1956; non Walker, 1863: preoccupied), N. distinguenda. Sometimes in striolella)
  • Niditinea praeumbrata (Meyrick, 1919) (= N. negreai, N. scotocleptes)
  • Niditinea sinensis Petersen & Gaedike, 1993
  • Niditinea striolella (Matsumura, 1931) (= N. pacifella, N. semidivisa)
  • Niditinea truncicolella (Tengström, 1848) (= N. rosenbergerella)
  • Niditinea tugurialis (Meyrick, 1932)

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a,b)
  2. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)
  3. Robinson [2010]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13483640 entry