| Niditinea | |
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| Brown-dotted clothes moth (N. fuscella), adult specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Subfamily: | Tineinae |
| Genus: | Niditinea Petersen, 1957 |
| Type species | |
| Tinea fuscipunctella Haworth, 1828
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| Diversity | |
| 12–13 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Niditinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae.2
Species
The 12 or 13 species currently placed in Niditinea are:3
- 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)
Footnotes
Footnotes
- Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a,b)
- Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)
- Robinson [2010]
References
References
- Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Niditinea. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Niditinea. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – "Tineidia". Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
- Robinson, Gaden S. [2010]: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.