Nematopogon Explained

"Nematopogon" was also invalidly established by Agassiz in 1847 as an unjustified emendation for the fungus moth genus Nemapogon.

Nematopogon is a genus of the fairy longhorn moth family (Adelidae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Nematopogoninae, of which it is the type genus.^[1]

Selected species

Species of Nematopogon include:^[2]

• Nematopogon adansoniella (Villers, 1789)
• Nematopogon chalcophyllis (Meyrick, 1935)
• Nematopogon distinctus (Yasuda, 1957)
• Nematopogon dorsigutellus (Erschoff, 1877)
• Nematopogon magna (Zeller, 1878) (= N. magnus, N. variella, N. variellus)
• Nematopogon metaxella (Hübner, 1813) (= N. metaxellus)
• Nematopogon pilella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (= N. pilellus)
• Nematopogon robertella (Clerck, 1759)
• Nematopogon schwarziellus Zeller, 1839 (= N. schwarziella)
• Nematopogon sericinellus Zeller, 1847
• Nematopogon swammerdamella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Nematopogon taiwanella Kozlov, 2001

References

• (2009): Nematopogon. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
• (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species  - Nematopogon. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.

Notes and References

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)
2. FE (2009), Wikispecies (2010-MAY-09)