Wegneria

Wegneria is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[2]

Wegneria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tineidae
Subfamily:
Hieroxestinae
Genus:
Wegneria

Diakonoff, 1951[1]
Type species
*Wegneria cavernicola Diakonoff, 1951

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)
  • Wegneria chrysophthalma (Meyrick, 1934) (from Uganda)
  • Wegneria lachanitis (Meyrick, 1906) (from India, Sri Lanka)
  • 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 villiersi (Viette, 1955) (from Guinea)

References
  • Diakonoff, 1951 . Zool. Meded. Leiden 31 : 131.
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
  3. Afromoths
  4. Zdenko & Buschmann, 2012. Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger, 1871), new records of Tineidae for Hungary and Central Europe (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) Microlepidoptera.hu 5: 39–42.


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