Wegneria

Genus of moths

Wegneria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tineidae
Subfamily:
Hieroxestinae
Genus:
Wegneria

Diakonoff, 1951[1]
Type species
*Wegneria cavernicola
Diakonoff, 1951

Wegneria is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[2]

Species

Some species of this genus are:[3]

  • Wegneria acervalis (Meyrick, 1914) (from Malawi)
  • Wegneria astragalodes (Meyrick, 1922) (from Uganda)
  • Wegneria cavernicola Diakonoff, 1951
  • Wegneria cerodelta (Meyrick, 1911) (from India, Japan, Malaysia,[4] Korea, Taiwan, Thailand)
  • Wegneria chrysophthalma (Meyrick, 1934) (from Uganda)
  • Wegneria encharacta (Meyrick, 1915) (from India)
  • Wegneria impotens (Meyrick, 1915) (from India)
  • Wegneria lachanitis (Meyrick, 1906) (from India, Sri Lanka)
  • Wegneria oxydesma (Meyrick, 1918) (from India)
  • Wegneria plasturga (Meyrick, 1911) (from India)
  • Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger 1871) (from Algeria, Canaries, Greece, Hungary and Ukraine)[5]
  • Wegneria scaeozona (Meyrick, 1920) (from Kenya)
  • Wegneria speciosa (Meyrick, 1914) (from Nigeria)
  • Wegneria spherotoma (Meyrick, 1911) (from India)
  • Wegneria subtilis (Diankonoff, 1955) (from New Guinea)
  • Wegneria villiersi (Viette, 1955) (from Guinea)

References

Wikispecies has information related to Wegneria.
  • Diakonoff, 1951 . Zool. Meded. Leiden 31 : 131.
  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
  3. ^ Afromoths
  4. ^ Robinson, 1980. Cave-dwelling Tineid moths; a taxonomic review of the world species (Lepidoptera : Tineidae). - TRANSACTIONS of the BRITISH CAVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 7 (2)
  5. ^ Zdenko & Buschmann, 2012. Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger, 1871), new records of Tineidae for Hungary and Central Europe (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) Microlepidoptera.hu 5: 39–42.
Taxon identifiers
Wegneria
  • Wikidata: Q7979683
  • Wikispecies: Wegneria
  • ButMoth: 30489.0
  • CoL: 87QF
  • EoL: 31964
  • Fauna Europaea: 432845
  • Fauna Europaea (new): b9564a78-e569-4519-a08a-250aaed21dd7
  • GBIF: 1855496
  • iNaturalist: 437576
  • IRMNG: 1297212
  • LepIndex: 129307
  • Open Tree of Life: 3035436


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