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Wegneria

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

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Length
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Wegneria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Hieroxestinae
Genus: Wegneria
Diakonoff, 19511
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

References

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