Wegneria Explained

Wegneria is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.^[1]

Species

Some species of this genus are:^[2]

• Wegneria acervalis (Meyrick, 1914) (from Malawi)
• Wegneria astragalodes (Meyrick, 1922) (from Uganda)
• Wegneria cavernicola Diakonoff, 1951
• Wegneria cerodelta (Meyrick, 1911) (from India, Japan, Malaysia,^[3] 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)^[4]
• 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

• Diakonoff, 1951 . Zool. Meded. Leiden 31 : 131.

Notes and References

1. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/tineidae/ Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
2. http://www.afromoths.net/genus/show/173900 Afromoths
3. https://hinko.org/hinko/Dowloads/BCRA/BCRA%207-2-1980.pdf Robinson, 1980. Cave-dwelling Tineid moths; a taxonomic review of the world species (Lepidoptera : Tineidae). - TRANSACTIONS of the BRITISH CAVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 7 (2)
4. http://www.microlepidoptera.hu/2012_pdf/6-tokar-buschmann_2012_wegneria_39-42.pdf Zdenko & Buschmann, 2012. Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger, 1871), new records of Tineidae for Hungary and Central Europe (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) Microlepidoptera.hu 5: 39–42.