:"Nematopogon" ''was also
invalidly established by Agassiz in 1847 as an unjustified
emendation
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* Emendation (textual), altering a word to make sense, e.g. when incomplete or assumed to have been copied incorrectly
* Emendation (zoology), altering the spelling of the ...
for the fungus moth genus ''
Nemapogon.
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''Nematopogon'' is a
genus of the
fairy longhorn moth family (Adelidae). Among these, it belongs to
subfamily
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Nematopogoninae, of which it is the
type genus.
Selected species
Species of ''Nematopogon'' include:
[FE (2009), Wikispecies (2010-MAY-09)]
* ''
Nematopogon adansoniella''
(Villers, 1789)
* ''
Nematopogon chalcophyllis''
(Meyrick
Meyrick is a surname and given name. Meyricke is a variant form.
Surname
* Edmund Meyrick (1636–1713), Welsh cleric
* Edward Meyrick (1854–1938), English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist
* Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), English ...
, 1935)
* ''
Nematopogon distinctus''
(Yasuda, 1957)
* ''
Nematopogon dorsigutellus''
(Erschoff, 1877)
* ''
Nematopogon magna''
(Zeller, 1878) (= ''N. magnus, N. variella, N. variellus'')
* ''
Nematopogon metaxella''
(Hübner, 1813) (= ''N. metaxellus'')
* ''
Nematopogon pilella''
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (= ''N. pilellus'')
* ''
Nematopogon robertella''
(Clerck, 1759)
* ''
Nematopogon schwarziellus''
Zeller, 1839 (= ''N. schwarziella'')
* ''
Nematopogon sericinellus''
Zeller, 1847
* ''
Nematopogon swammerdamella''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Nematopogon taiwanella''
Kozlov, 2001
Footnotes
References
* (2009)
''Nematopogon'' Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
* (2004)
Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species&ndash
''Nematopogon'' Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
Adelidae
Adeloidea genera
Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller
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