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Pseudatemelia
Pseudatemelia flavifrontella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Division:
Family:
Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily:
Amphisbatinae (but see text)
Genus:
Pseudatemelia

Rebel, 1910
Type species
Pseudatemelia aeneella
Rebel, 1910
Species

Numerous, see text

Synonyms
  • Pseudotamella (lapsus)
  • Pseudotemelia (lapsus)
  • Tubulifera Spuler, 1910 (non Zopf, 1885: Tubulifera (slime mold) preoccupied)
  • Tubuliferola Strand, 1917

Pseudatemelia is a genus of gelechioid moths.[1][2]

Taxonomy

In the systematic layout used here, it is placed in the subfamily Amphisbatinae of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Delimitation of Amphisbatinae versus the closely related Depressariinae and Oecophorinae is a major problem of Gelechioidea taxonomy and systematics, and some authors separate the former two as full-blown families (Amphisbatidae and Depressariidae), and/or include the Amphisbatinae in Depressariinae (or Depressariidae), or merge them in the Oecophorinae outright.[3]

Recent research has shown that this genus is one of those close to Lypusa, the type of the supposed Tineoidea family Lypusidae.[4]

Distribution

These moths are present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.[5]

Species

Two subgenera are recognized. Species of Pseudatemelia include:[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Savela, Markku (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Pseudatemelia
  2. ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-speciesPseudatemelia.
  3. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela (2001)
  4. ^ Reassessment of the enigmatic Lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea)
  5. ^ Fauna europaea
  6. ^ Biolib
  7. ^ FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2001)