Opostega

Opostega
Opostega salaciella , the type species of the genus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Opostegidae
Subfamily:	Oposteginae
Genus:	Opostega Zeller, 1839
Type species
Elachista salaciella Treitschke, 1914

Opostega is a genus of moths of the family Opostegidae with 49 listed species.

Species

• Opostega afghani D.R. Davis, 1989
• Opostega amphimitra Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega angulata Gerasimov, 1930
• Opostega argentella Bradley, 1957
• Opostega arthrota Meyrick, 1915
• Opostega atypa Turner, 1923
• Opostega basilissa Meyrick, 1893
• Opostega bimaculatella Rothschild, 1912
• Opostega brithys Turner, 1923
• Opostega chalcophylla Meyrick, 1910
• Opostega chalcoplethes Turner, 1923
• Opostega chalinias Meyrick, 1893
• Opostega chordacta Meyrick, 1915
• Opostega cirrhacma Meyrick, 1911
• Opostega costantiniella Costantini, 1923
• Opostega cretatella Chrétien, 1915
• Opostega diorthota Meyrick, 1893
• Opostega diplardis Meyrick, 1912
• Opostega granifera Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega heringella Mariani, 1937
• Opostega horaria Meyrick, 1921
• Opostega idiocoma Meyrick, 1918
• Opostega ischnophaea Meyrick, 1930
• Opostega kuznetzovi Kozlov, 1985
• Opostega luticilia Meyrick, 1915
• Opostega melitardis Meyrick, 1918
• Opostega monotypa Turner, 1923
• Opostega nubifera Turner, 1900
• Opostega orestias Meyrick, 1880
• Opostega orophoxantha Meyrick, 1921
• Opostega pelocrossa Meyrick, 1928
• Opostega phaeosoma Meyrick, 1928
• Opostega phaeospila Turner, 1923
• Opostega praefusca Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega radiosa Meyrick, 1913
• Opostega rezniki Kozlov, 1985
• Opostega salaciella (Treitschke, 1833)
• Opostega scoliozona Meyrick, 1915
• Opostega snelleni Nolcken, 1882
• Opostega spatulella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
• Opostega stekolnikovi Kozlov, 1985
• Opostega stiriella Meyrick, 1881
• Opostega symbolica Meyrick, 1914
• Opostega tincta Meyrick, 1918
• Opostega xenodoxa Meyrick, 1893

External links

• 
   Media related to Opostega at Wikimedia Commons
• Generic Revision of the Opostegidae, with a Synoptic Catalog of the World's Species (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea)