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.Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
Selected species
Species of Tinea include:ABRS (2008), FE (2009), Robinson , and see references in Savela (2009)
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:Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), ABRS (2008), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009) Acedes Hübner, Autoses Hübner, Chrysoryctis Meyrick, 1886 Dystinea Börner in Brohmer, 1925 Monopina 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.FE (2009), Robinson , and see references in Savela (2009)
Footnotes
References
(2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Tinea. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-MAY-03. (2009): Tinea. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-03. (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Tinea. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05. : Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2010-MAY-05. (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Tinea. Version of 2009-AUG-20. Retrieved 2010-MAY-03.