''Archinemapogon'' is a somewhat disputed

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of the

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, Tineidae. Within this group, it belongs to the

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Nemapogoninae Nemapogoninae is a fungus moth subfamily of the family Tineidae. It was described by Hinton in 1955. Genera * '' Archinemapogon'' * '' Dinica'' * '' Emmochlista'' * '' Gaedikeia'' * '' Hyladaula'' * ''Nemapogon __NOTOC__ ''Nemapogon'' is a ...

. It is apparently an extremely close relative of the

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of its subfamily, ''

Nemapogon __NOTOC__ ''Nemapogon'' is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Nemapogoninae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily. Species As of 2007, 69 species of ''Nemapogon'' had be ...

'', and some authors include it there.Pitkin & Jenkins (2004) Its

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is called '' A. yildizae'' today, but that name was not established until 1981. Formerly, this moth was known as ''A. laterella'' – originally placed in ''

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'' –, as well as ''T. picarella'' and ''A./T. arcuatella''. The first name was established by C.P. Thunberg in 1794, and the latter two (

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, it was assumed) by J. Hübner in 1796 and H.T. Stainton in 1854, respectively. But all these names had been used before – J.N.C.M. Denis & I. Schiffermüller had described a ''T. laterella'' in 1775 (a

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, now known as '' Agonopterix laterella''), C.A. Clerck a ''T. picarella'' as early as 1759 (now '' Nemapogon picarella''), and F.P. von Schrank a ''T. arcuatella'' in 1802 (probably a junior synonym of the arctiid moth ''

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''). When this was discovered, a new name for the moth had to be found.

Species

The nine

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placed in ''Archinemapogon'' are:Robinson 010/ref> * '' Archinemapogon assamensis'' Robinson, 1980 * '' Archinemapogon bacurianus'' Zagulajev, 1962 * '' Archinemapogon erasella'' (Zeller, 1863) * '' Archinemapogon interstitiella'' (Dietz, 1905) * '' Archinemapogon oregonella'' (Busck, 1901) * '' Archinemapogon rileyi'' (Dietz, 1905) (= ''A. atriflua'') * '' Archinemapogon schromicus'' Zagulajev, 1964 * ''

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'' Zagulajev, 1962 * '' Archinemapogon yildizae'' Koçak, 1981

Footnotes

References

* (2004)
Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species
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''Archinemapogon''
Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05. * 010br>Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)
Retrieved 2010-MAY-05. Nemapogoninae Taxa named by Aleksei Konstantinovich Zagulyaev Tineidae genera {{Tineidae-stub