''Tinea'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of the fungus moth

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Tineidae Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. ...

. Therein, it belongs to the

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...

Tineinae The Tineinae are a subfamily of moths of the family Tineidae. Genera * ''Acridotarsa'' * '' Anomalotinea'' * '' Asymphyla'' * ''Ceratobia'' * '' Ceratophaga'' * '' Ceratuncus'' * '' Crypsithyris'' * '' Crypsithyrodes'' * '' Eccritothrix'' * ''E ...

. As evident by its name, it is the

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of its subfamily and family. Established as one of the first subgroups of ''"

Phalaena ''Phalaena'' is an obsolete genus of Lepidoptera used by Carl Linnaeus to house most moths. ''Phalaena'' was one of three genera used by Linnaeus to cover all Lepidoptera. ''Papilio'' included all butterflies at that time, ''Sphinx'' included al ...

"'', it used to contain many species of Tineidae that are nowadays placed in other genera, as well as a few

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s nowadays placed elsewhere.

Selected species

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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 ''Tinea pellionella'', the case-bearing clothes moth, is a species of tineoid moth in the family Tineidae, the fungus moths. This species has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring nearly worldwide.Cheema, P. S. (1956).Studies on the bionomics of ...

'' – 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 synonym The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...

s of ''Tinea'' are: * ''Acedes'' Hübner,

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/small> * ''Autoses'' Hübner,

/small> * ''Chrysoryctis'' Meyrick, 1886 * ''Dystinea'' Börner in Brohmer, 1925 * ''Monopina'' Zagulyaev, 1955 * ''Scleroplasta'' Meyrick, 1919 * ''Ses'' Hübner, 1822 * ''Taenia'' (''

lapsus In philology, a lapsus (Latin for "lapse, slip, error") is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking. Investigations In 1895 an investigation into verbal slips was undertaken by a philologist and a psychologist, Rudolf Meringer and K ...

''; ''non'' Linnaeus, 1758:

preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...

) * ''Tinaea'' (''lapsus'') * ''Tinearia'' Rafinesque, 1815 (unjustified emendation; ''non'' Schellenberg, 1803:

) * ''Tineopis'' Zagulyaev, 1960 '' Edosa'' is sometimes included in ''Tinea''; it is here treated as doubtfully distinct genus for the time being.FE (2009), Robinson 010 and see references in Savela (2009)

Footnotes

References

* (2008): Australian Faunal Directory &ndash
''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
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''Tinea''
Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05. * 010br>Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)
Retrieved 2010-MAY-05. * (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash

Version of 2009-AUG-20. Retrieved 2010-MAY-03. Tineinae Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Tineidae genera {{Tineidae-stub