Tinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Tineinae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily and family. Established as one of the first subgroups of "Phalaena", it used to contain many species of Tineidae that are nowadays placed in other genera, as well as a few moths nowadays placed elsewhere.
Selected species
Species of Tinea include:
- Tinea accusatrix <small>Meyick, 1916</small> (New Zealand)
- Tinea analytica Meyrick, 1919 (from Guyana)
- Tinea antricola <small>Meyrick, 1924</small> (India, Sumatra, Indonesia and Malaysia)
- Tinea apicimaculella <small>Chambers, 1875</small> (North America)
- Tinea atmogramma <small>Meyrick, 1927</small> (New Zealand)
- Tinea atriflua Meyrick, 1919 (from Ontario, Canada)
- Tinea basifasciella <small>Ragonot, 1895</small>
- Tinea behrensella <small>Chambers, 1875</small>
- Tinea bothniella <small>Svensson, 1953</small>
- Tinea borboropis Meyrick, 1919 (from Guyana)
- Tinea caerula Meyrick, 1927 (from Peru)
- Tinea carnariella <small>Clemens, 1859</small>
- Tinea catalytica Meyrick, 1919 (from Colombia)
- Tinea chaotica <small>Meyrick, 1893</small>
- Tinea chloroceros Meyrick, 1919 (from Ecuador)
- Tinea columbariella <small>Wocke, 1877</small> (cosmopolitan)
- Tinea conferta <small>Meyrick, 1914</small> (New Zealand)
- Tinea conspecta <small>Philpott, 1931</small> (New Zealand)
- Tinea conchylitis Meyrick, 1919 (from Peru)
- Tinea coracopis Meyrick, 1909 (from Peru)
- Tinea corynephora <small>Turner, 1927</small>
- Tinea croceoverticella <small>Chambers, 1876</small>
- Tinea criochrysa Meyrick (from Brazil)
- Tinea delotoma Meyrick, 1919 (from French Guyana)
- Tinea dividua <small>Philpott, 1928</small>
- Tinea drymonoma <small>Turner, 1923</small> (Australia)
- Tinea dubiella <small>Stainton, 1859</small> (New Zealand)
- Tinea extracta Meyrick (from Guyana)
- Tinea flavescentella <small>Haworth, 1828</small>
- Tinea flavofimbriella <small>(Chrétien, 1925)</small>
- Tinea grumella <small>Zeller, 1873</small>
- Tinea gypsomicta Meyrick, 1931 (from Chile)
- Tinea holocapna Meyrick, 1931 (from Argentina)
- Tinea irrepta <small>Braun, 1926</small>
- Tinea isodonta Meyrick, 1931 (from Chile)
- Tinea lanella <small>Pierce & Metcalfe, 1934</small>
- Tinea mandarinella <small>Dietz, 1905</small>
- Tinea melanoptycha <small>(Turner, 1939)</small>
- Tinea messalina <small>Robinson, 1979</small>
- Tinea misceella <small>Chambers, 1873</small>
- Tinea montezuma Meyrick (from Bolivia))
- Tinea murariella <small>Staudinger, 1859</small>
- Tinea niveocapitella <small>Chambers, 1875</small>
- Tinea occidentella <small>Chambers, 1880</small> (California, Baja California)
- Tinea omichlopis <small>Meyrick, 1928</small> (= T. nonimella)
- Tinea pallescentella <small>Stainton, 1851</small> (= T. galeatella) (from Argentina)
- Tinea oxymora Meyrick (from Peru)
- Tinea phaeonephela Meyrick (from Peru)
- Tinea platysaris Meyrick (from Argentina)
- Tinea pellionella – case-bearing clothes moth
- Tinea poecilella <small>Rebel, 1940</small>
- Tinea porphyropa <small>Meyrick, 1927</small> (Sumatra, Indonesia and Malaysia)
- Tinea porphyrota <small>Meyrick, 1893</small> (tentatively placed here)
- Tinea praeumbrata Meyrick (from Guyana)
- Tinea prensoria <small>Meyrick, 1931</small> (from Chile)
- Tinea semifulvella Haworth, 1828 (palearctic)
- Tinea sequens <small>Meyrick, 1919</small> (from Guyana)
- Tinea steueri <small>Petersen, 1966</small>
- Tinea straminiella <small>Chambers, 1873</small>
- Tinea svenssoni <small>Opheim, 1965</small> (Northern Europe & America)
- Tinea thoracestrigella <small>Chambers, 1876</small>
- Tinea translucens <small>Meyrick, 1917</small> (cosmopolitan)
- Tinea tridectis <small>Meyrick, 1893</small>
- Tinea trinotella (Tbhunberg, 1794) (western Palearctic)
- Tinea tylodes Meyrick (from Canada)
- Tinea unomaculella <small>Chambers, 1875</small>
- Tinea xanthostictella <small>Dietz, 1905</small>
- Tinea xenodes <small>Meyrick, 1909</small> (from Bolivia)
Species formerly placed here include for example Ceratobia oxymora. Before the 19th century, many unrelated moths were placed in Tinea at one time or another.
Synonyms
Junior synonyms of Tinea are:
- Acedes <small>Hübner, [1825]</small>
- Autoses <small>Hübner, [1825]</small>
- Chrysoryctis <small>Meyrick, 1886</small>
- Dystinea <small>Börner in Brohmer, 1925</small>
- Monopina <small>Zagulyaev, 1955</small>
- Scleroplasta <small>Meyrick, 1919</small>
- Ses <small>Hübner, 1822</small>
- Taenia <small>(lapsus; non Linnaeus, 1758: preoccupied)</small>
- Tinaea <small>(lapsus)</small>
- Tinearia <small>Rafinesque, 1815 (unjustified ; non Schellenberg, 1803: preoccupied)</small>
- Tineopis <small>Zagulyaev, 1960</small>
Edosa is sometimes included in Tinea; it is here treated as doubtfully distinct genus for the time being.
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