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

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.

Selected species

Species of Tinea include:

• Tinea antricola Meyrick, 1924
• Tinea apicimaculella Chambers, 1875
• Tinea atmogramma Meyrick, 1927
• Tinea basifasciella Ragonot, 1895
• Tinea behrensella Chambers, 1875
• Tinea bothniella Svensson, 1953
• Tinea carnariella Clemens, 1859
• Tinea chaotica Meyrick, 1893
• Tinea columbariella Wocke, 1877
• Tinea corynephora Turner, 1927
• Tinea croceoverticella Chambers, 1876
• Tinea drymonoma Turner, 1923
• Tinea dubiella Stainton, 1859
• Tinea flavescentella Haworth, 1828
• Tinea flavofimbriella (Chrétien, 1925)
• Tinea grumella Zeller, 1873
• Tinea irrepta Braun, 1926
• Tinea lanella Pierce & Metcalfe, 1934
• Tinea mandarinella Dietz, 1905
• Tinea melanoptycha (Turner, 1939)
• Tinea messalina Robinson, 1979
• Tinea misceella Chambers, 1873
• Tinea murariella Staudinger, 1859
• Tinea niveocapitella Chambers, 1875
• Tinea occidentella Chambers, 1880
• Tinea omichlopis Meyrick, 1928 (= T. nonimella)
• Tinea pallescentella Stainton, 1851 (= T. galeatella)
• Tinea pellionella – case-bearing clothes moth
• Tinea poecilella Rebel, 1940
• Tinea porphyropa Meyrick, 1927
• Tinea porphyrota Meyrick, 1893 (tentatively placed here)
• Tinea prensoria Meyrick, 1931
• Tinea semifulvella
• Tinea sequens Meyrick, 1919
• Tinea steueri Petersen, 1966
• Tinea straminiella Chambers, 1873
• Tinea svenssoni Opheim, 1965
• Tinea thoracestrigella Chambers, 1876
• Tinea translucens Meyrick, 1917
• Tinea tridectis Meyrick, 1893
• Tinea trinotella
• Tinea unomaculella Chambers, 1875
• Tinea xanthostictella Dietz, 1905
• Tinea xenodes Meyrick, 1909

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:

• Acedes Hübner, [1825]
• Autoses Hübner, [1825]
• 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.

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.