Oecophora

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Oecophora
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Adult Oecophora bractella in Hellerup, Denmark
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Oecophora

Latreille, 1796
Type species
Tinea sulphurella
Fabricius, 1777
(non Fabricius, 1775: preoccupied)

Oecophora is a genus of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Oecophorinae. It is the type genus of its subfamily and family. Thus, regardless of the uncertain phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of its superfamily Gelechioidea, it and its closest relatives always have to be assigned to this family and subfamily as long as these are deemed valid. [1]

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Systematics and taxonomy

The genus' type species was initially given as the Tinea sulphurella described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1777. However, that name is a junior homonym and thus invalid; Fabricius himself had used it two years earlier to describe the moth now known as Esperia sulphurella . But actually, Fabricius' 1777 "T." sulphurella had been described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 already, who named it Tinea bractella. But subsequent authors placed it in the related genus Alabonia , thus preventing for long the determination of the correct name for the moth invalidly described by Fabricius in 1777. [2]

Invalid scientific names of Oecophora are: [3]

Selected species

Species of Oecophora include: [4] [1]

Formerly, several other Oecophorinae (e.g. of genus Esperia ) have been placed here too.

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 See references in Savela (2001)
  2. Grabe (1942), Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)
  3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)
  4. McCann, Sean (July 2007). "Species Oecophora bractella". Bugguide hosted by Iowa State University Department of Entomology.

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