''Denisia'' is a
genus
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of the
concealer moth
Oecophoridae (concealer moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this.
...
family
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(Oecophoridae). Among these, it belongs to
subfamily
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Oecophorinae
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The Oecophorinae are the nominate subfamily of moths in the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). They are part of the insufficiently studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and like their relatives, the circumscription of this taxon is dis ...
. It was originally established as a
subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
of ''
Borkhausenia''.
Selected species
Species
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of ''Denisia'' include:
* ''
Denisia albimaculea''
* ''
Denisia aragonella''
(Chrétien, 1903)
* ''
Denisia augustella''
(Hübner, 1796)
* ''
Denisia caucasiella''
Lvovsky, 2007
* ''
Denisia coeruleopicta''
(Christoph, 1888)
* ''
Denisia fiduciella''
(Rebel, 1935)
* ''
Denisia fuscicapitella''
Huemer, 2001
* ''
Denisia graslinella''
(Staudinger, 1871)
* ''
Denisia haydenella''
(Chambers, 1877)
* ''
Denisia luctuosella''
(Duponchel, 1840)
* ''
Denisia luticiliella''
(Erschoff, 1877)
* ''
Denisia muellerrutzi''
(Amsel, 1939)
* ''
Denisia nubilosella''
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
* ''
Denisia obscurella''
(Brandt, 1937) (formerly in ''
Buvatina'')
* ''
Denisia pyrenaica''
Leraut, 1989
* ''
Denisia ragonotella''
(Constant, 1885)
* ''
Denisia rhaetica''
(Frey, 1856)
* ''
Denisia similella''
* ''
Denisia stipella''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Denisia stroemella''
(Fabricius, 1779) (formerly in ''Buvatina'')
* ''
Denisia subaquilea''
(Stainton, 1849)
* ''
Denisia yukonella''
Lvovsky, 2007
Footnotes
References
*
Fauna Europaea Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. It serves as a standard taxonomic source for animal taxonomy within the Pan-European Species directories Infras ...
(FE) (2009)
''Denisia'' Version 2.1, December 22, 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
* Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004)
Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species&ndash
''Denisia'' Version of November 5, 2004. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
* Savela, Markku (2003): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash
Version of December 29, 2003. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
Oecophoridae
Moth genera
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