Tinea (moth)

Tinea
	Case-bearing clothes moth (T. pellionella),; adult from Commanster (Belgian Ardennes)
Scientific 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

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]

Tinea accusatrix Meyick, 1916 (New Zealand)
Tinea analytica Meyrick, 1919 (from Guyana)
Tinea antricola Meyrick, 1924 (India, Sumatra, Indonesia and Malaysia)
Tinea apicimaculella Chambers, 1875 (North America)
Tinea atmogramma Meyrick, 1927 (New Zealand)
Tinea atriflua Meyrick, 1919 (from Ontario, Canada)
Tinea basifasciella Ragonot, 1895
Tinea behrensella Chambers, 1875
Tinea bothniella Svensson, 1953
Tinea borboropis Meyrick, 1919 (from Guyana)
Tinea caerula Meyrick, 1927 (from Peru)
Tinea carnariella Clemens, 1859
Tinea catalytica Meyrick, 1919 (from Colombia)
Tinea chaotica Meyrick, 1893
Tinea chloroceros Meyrick, 1919 (from Ecuador)
Tinea columbariella Wocke, 1877 (cosmopolitan)
Tinea conferta Meyrick, 1914 (New Zealand)
Tinea conspecta Philpott, 1931 (New Zealand)
Tinea conchylitis Meyrick, 1919 (from Peru)
Tinea coracopis Meyrick, 1909 (from Peru)
Tinea corynephora Turner, 1927
Tinea croceoverticella Chambers, 1876
Tinea criochrysa Meyrick (from Brazil)
Tinea delotoma Meyrick, 1919 (from French Guyana)
Tinea dividua Philpott, 1928
Tinea drymonoma Turner, 1923 (Australia)
Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1859 (New Zealand)
Tinea extracta Meyrick (from Guyana)
Tinea flavescentella Haworth, 1828
Tinea flavofimbriella (Chrétien, 1925)
Tinea grumella Zeller, 1873
Tinea gypsomicta Meyrick, 1931 (from Chile)
Tinea holocapna Meyrick, 1931 (from Argentina)
Tinea irrepta Braun, 1926
Tinea isodonta Meyrick, 1931 (from Chile)
Tinea lanella Pierce & Metcalfe, 1934
Tinea mandarinella Dietz, 1905
Tinea melanoptycha (Turner, 1939)
Tinea messalina Robinson, 1979
Tinea misceella Chambers, 1873
Tinea montezuma Meyrick (from Bolivia))
Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859
Tinea niveocapitella Chambers, 1875
Tinea occidentella Chambers, 1880 (California, Baja California)
Tinea omichlopis Meyrick, 1928 (= T. nonimella)
Tinea pallescentella Stainton, 1851 (= T. galeatella) (from Argentina)
Tinea oxymora Meyrick (from Peru)
Tinea phaeonephela Meyrick (from Peru)
Tinea platysaris Meyrick (from Argentina)
Tinea pellionella – case-bearing clothes moth
Tinea poecilella Rebel, 1940
Tinea porphyropa Meyrick, 1927 (Sumatra, Indonesia and Malaysia)
Tinea porphyrota Meyrick, 1893 (tentatively placed here)
Tinea praeumbrata Meyrick (from Guyana)
Tinea prensoria Meyrick, 1931 (from Chile)
Tinea semifulvella Haworth, 1828 (palearctic)
Tinea sequens Meyrick, 1919 (from Guyana)
Tinea steueri Petersen, 1966
Tinea straminiella Chambers, 1873
Tinea svenssoni Opheim, 1965 (Northern Europe & America)
Tinea thoracestrigella Chambers, 1876
Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917 (cosmopolitan)
Tinea tridectis Meyrick, 1893
Tinea trinotella (Tbhunberg, 1794) (western Palearctic)
Tinea tylodes Meyrick (from Canada)
Tinea unomaculella Chambers, 1875
Tinea xanthostictella Dietz, 1905
Tinea xenodes Meyrick, 1909 (from Bolivia)

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^{[verification needed]} 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

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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[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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