Opogona

Opogona
Opogona omoscopa imago from
Aranda, Australian Capital Territory
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Family: Tineidae
Subfamily: Hieroxestinae
Genus: Opogona
Zeller, 1853
Type species
Opogona dimidiatella
Zeller, 1853
Species

Numerous, see text

Synonyms

Numerous, see text

Opogona is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Hieroxestinae. As it includes Opogona omoscopa, the type species of the now-abolished genus Hieroxestis, it is the type genus of its subfamily.

Thes are most common in the tropical parts of the world; for example, from Australia, almost 30 species are known. But two members of this genus – the banana moth (O. sacchari) and to a lesser extent O. omoscopa – have been introduced even to Europe.[1]

Selected species

The numerous species of Opogona include:[2]

  • Opogona arizonensis Davis, 1978
  • Opogona asema (Turner, 1900)
  • Opogona aurisquamosa
  • Opogona basilissa (Turner, 1917)
  • Opogona bicolorella (Matsumura, 1931)
  • Opogona calculata Meyrick, 1919
  • Opogona caryospila Meyrick, 1920
  • Opogona cataclasta Meyrick, 1915
  • Opogona chrysophanes Meyrick, 1915
  • Opogona citrolopha Meyrick, 1932
  • Opogona cleonyma (Meyrick, 1897)
  • Opogona comptella
  • Opogona confinis Turner, 1926
  • Opogona conjurata (Meyrick, 1920)
  • Opogona crypsipyra Turner, 1923
  • Opogona dimidiatella Zeller, 1853
  • Opogona discordia J.F.G.Clarke, 1986
  • Opogona fascigera Meyrick, 1915
  • Opogona fatima Meyrick, 1921
  • Opogona flavofasciata (Stainton, 1859)
  • Opogona floridensis Davis, 1978
  • Opogona glycyphaga Meyrick, 1915
  • Opogona isotalanta Meyrick, 1930
  • Opogona micranthes (Meyrick, 1897)
  • Opogona nebularis (Meyrick, 1897)
  • Opogona nipponica Stringer, 1930
  • Opogona omoscopa
  • Opogona orthotis (Meyrick, 1897)
  • Opogona papayae Turner, 1923
  • Opogona praestans (Walsingham, 1892)
  • Opogona promalacta Meyrick, 1915
  • Opogona protodoxa (Meyrick, 1897)
  • Opogona regressa Meyrick, 1916
  • Opogona sacchari – banana moth
  • Opogona sarophila Meyrick, 1915
  • Opogona scalena (Meyrick, 1897)
  • Opogona simoniella (Wallengren, 1861)
  • Opogona stenocraspeda (Meyrick, 1897)
  • Opogona stereodyta
  • Opogona tetrasema (Turner, 1917)
  • Opogona thiadelpha Meyrick, 1934
  • Opogona trichoceros Meyrick, 1930
  • Opogona trissostacta Meyrick, 1934
  • Opogona tristicta (Meyrick, 1897)

Some species have been removed from the present genus, however. For example, O. panchalcella is now in Wegneria.

Synonyms

Times and again, groups of these moths have been proposed for separation in distinct genera. Here however, the genus is considered to contain the core group of Hieroxestinae and is thus delimited sensu lato. Junior synonyms and other invalid scientific names of Opogona are:[3]

  • Cachura Walker, 1864
  • Conchyliospila Wallengren, 1861
  • Conchyliopsila (lapsus)
  • Dendroneura Walsingham, 1892
  • Exala Meyrick, 1912
  • Hieroxestis Meyrick, 1893
  • Lozostoma Stainton, 1859
  • Loxostoma (lapsus nec Bivona-Bernardi 1838: preoccupied)
  • Lissocarena Turner, 1923

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ABRS (2010), FE (2011)
  2. ↑ Clarke (1986), ABRS (2010), Robinson [2011], and see references in Savela (2003)
  3. ↑ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), ABRS (2010)

References

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