Nematopogon
- "Nematopogon" was also invalidly established by Agassiz in 1847 as an unjustified emendation for the fungus moth genus Nemapogon.
| Nematopogon | |
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| Adult Nematopogon metaxella at Commanster (Belgian Ardennes) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Adelidae |
| Subfamily: | Nematopogoninae |
| Genus: | Nematopogon Zeller, 1839 |
| Type species | |
| Nematopogon schwarziellus Zeller, 1839 | |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
Nematopogon is a genus of the fairy longhorn moth family (Adelidae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Nematopogoninae, of which it is the type genus.[1]
Selected species
Species of Nematopogon include:[2]
- Nematopogon adansoniella (Villers, 1789)
- Nematopogon chalcophyllis (Meyrick, 1935)
- Nematopogon distinctus (Yasuda, 1957)
- Nematopogon dorsigutellus (Erschoff, 1877)
- Nematopogon magna (Zeller, 1878) (= N. magnus, N. variella, N. variellus)
- Nematopogon metaxella (Hübner, 1813) (= N. metaxellus)
- Nematopogon pilella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (= N. pilellus)
- Nematopogon robertella (Clerck, 1759)
- Nematopogon schwarziellus Zeller, 1839 (= N. schwarziella)
- Nematopogon sericinellus Zeller, 1847
- Nematopogon swammerdamella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Nematopogon taiwanella Kozlov, 2001
Footnotes
References
Media related to Nematopogon at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Nematopogon at Wikispecies
- Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Nematopogon. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Nematopogon. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.