''Archinemapogon'' is a somewhat disputed
genus
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of the
fungus moth
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family
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, Tineidae. Within this group, it belongs to the
subfamily
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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
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''Nemapogon'' is a ...
. It is apparently an extremely close relative of the
type genus
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Zoological nomenclature
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of its subfamily, ''
Nemapogon
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''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
type species
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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 ''
Tinea
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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
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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
concealer moth
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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 ''
Dysauxes ancilla
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''). When this was discovered, a new name for the moth had to be found.
Species
The nine
species
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placed in ''Archinemapogon'' are:
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* '' 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
* '']Archinemapogon ussuriensis
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* 8 (number) in octal numeral notation
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* 010, ...
'' Zagulajev, 1962
* '' Archinemapogon yildizae'' Koçak, 1981
Footnotes
References
* (2004)
Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species
&ndash
''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
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