Nemapogon

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Nemapogon
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Adult Nemapogon variatella , Espoo, Finland
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Nemapogoninae
Genus: Nemapogon
Schrank, 1802
Type species
Phalaena (Tinea) granella
Linnaeus, 1758
Diversity
69 species
Synonyms

Numerous, see text

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. [1]

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Species

As of 2007, 69 species of Nemapogon had been described. New ones are still being discovered on a regular basis: [2]

Synonyms

Junior synonyms of Nemapogon are: [3]

The genus name Brosis was first proposed by J. Hübner in 1806, but in a book the famous Tentamen determinsationis ("Preliminary examination") that was essentially an immense discussion paper and not a valid work of zoological nomenclature. When Hübner came to validly erect the genus in his 1822 genus list (Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichnis), it had already been used by G.J. Billberg for what is nowadays considered the Incurvariidae genus Incurvaria . [4]

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004c), FE (2009), and see references in Svela (2009)
  2. FE (2009), Robinson [2010]
  3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004c), ABRS (2008), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
  4. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004ab)

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