Tinea
Case-bearing clothes moth (T. pellionella),
adult from Commanster (Belgian Ardennes)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Tineinae
Genus: Tinea
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Phalaena (Tinea) pellionella
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms

Numerous, see text

Larva in the case typical of the genus. It can turn around in the case to protrude its head and legs at either end and drag the case in either direction.

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 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]

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)

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