Pseudatemelia

Pseudatemelia is a genus of gelechioid moths.[1][2]

Pseudatemelia
Pseudatemelia flavifrontella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Superfamily:
Gelechioidea
Family:
Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily:
Amphisbatinae (but see text)
Genus:
Pseudatemelia

Rebel, 1910
Type species
Pseudatemelia aeneella
Rebel, 1910
Species

Numerous, see text

Synonyms
  • Pseudotamella (lapsus)
  • Pseudotemelia (lapsus)
  • Tubulifera Spuler, 1910 (non Zopf, 1885: Tubulifera (slime mold) preoccupied)
  • Tubuliferola Strand, 1917

Taxonomy

In the systematic layout used here, it is placed in the subfamily Amphisbatinae of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Delimitation of Amphisbatinae versus the closely related Depressariinae and Oecophorinae is a major problem of Gelechioidea taxonomy and systematics, and some authors separate the former two as full-blown families (Amphisbatidae and Depressariidae), and/or include the Amphisbatinae in Depressariinae (or Depressariidae), or merge them in the Oecophorinae outright.[3]

Recent research has shown that this genus is one of those close to Lypusa, the type of the supposed Tineoidea family Lypusidae.[4] The genus Pseudatemelia has to be dissolved and all the species previously assigned to it has to be transferred to the genus Agnoea, Lypusidae family, Gelechioidea superfamily. [5][6]

Distribution

These moths are present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.[7]

Species

Two subgenera are recognized. Species of Pseudatemelia include:[8][9]

References
  1. Savela, Markku (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Pseudatemelia
  2. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Pseudatemelia.
  3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela (2001)
  4. Reassessment of the enigmatic Lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea)
  5. National Biodiversity Network (NBN) atlas
  6. Lepiforum (in German)
  7. Fauna europaea
  8. Biolib
  9. FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2001)


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