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Tinea (moth)

Tinea
Case-bearing clothes moth (T. pellionella),
adult from Commanster (Belgian Ardennes)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Tineinae
Genus: Tinea
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Phalaena (Tinea) pellionella
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms

Numerous, see text

Larva in the case typical of the genus. It can turn around in the case to protrude its head and legs at either end and drag the case in either direction.

Tinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Tineinae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily and family. Established as one of the first subgroups of "Phalaena", it used to contain many species of Tineidae that are nowadays placed in other genera, as well as a few moths nowadays placed elsewhere.[1]

  1. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2009)
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