Niditinea Explained

Niditinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae.^[1]

Species

The 12 or 13 species currently placed in Niditinea are:^[2]

• Niditinea baryspilas (Meyrick, 1937) (= N. unipunctella)
• Niditinea contrariella Zeller, 1877
• Niditinea erschoffi Zagulayev, 1983
• Niditinea fuscella  - brown-dotted clothes moth
• Niditinea nigrocapitella Zagulajev, 1960
• Niditinea orleansella (Chambers, 1873)
• Niditinea pallidorsella (Zeller, 1877)
• Niditinea piercella (Bentinck, 1935) (= N. ignotella (Zagulajev, 1956; non Walker, 1863: preoccupied), N. distinguenda. Sometimes in striolella)
• Niditinea praeumbrata (Meyrick, 1919) (= N. negreai, N. scotocleptes)
• Niditinea sinensis Petersen & Gaedike, 1993
• Niditinea striolella (Matsumura, 1931) (= N. pacifella, N. semidivisa)
• Niditinea truncicolella (Tengström, 1848) (= N. rosenbergerella)
• Niditinea tugurialis (Meyrick, 1932)

References

• (2009): Niditinea. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species  - Niditinea. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species  - "Tineidia". Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• [2010]: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.

Notes and References

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)
2. Robinson [2010]