''Exaeretia'' is a
moth
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genus
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of the
superfamily
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Gelechioidea
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Gelechioidea (from the type genus ''Gelechia'', "keeping to the ground") is the Taxonomic rank, superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. ...
. It is placed in the family
Depressariidae
Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.
Subfamilies
Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies:
* Acriinae ...
, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a sub
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
Oecophoridae
Oecophoridae (concealer moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this.
...
or included in the
Elachistidae
The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lumpers and splitters, lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly result ...
.
[Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)]
Selected species
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Exaeretia allisella
''Exaeretia allisella'' is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in most of northern and central Europe, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia and northern and central China.
The wingspan is 20–23 mm. The forewings are reddi ...
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Stainton, 1849
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Exaeretia ammitis''
(Meyrick, 1931)
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Exaeretia amurella''
Lvovsky, 1990
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Exaeretia ascetica''
(Meyrick, 1926)
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Exaeretia boreella
''Exaeretia boreella'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Alexandr L. Lvovsky in 1990. It is found in Yakutia and Kamchatka
The Kamchatka Peninsula (, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . ...
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Lvovsky, 1990
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Exaeretia bignatha''
S.X. Wang & Z. Zheng, 1998
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Exaeretia buvati
''Exaeretia buvati'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Jacques Nel in 2014. It is found in Pyrénées-Orientales in France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Ov ...
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J. Nel, 2014
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Exaeretia canella
''Exaeretia'' is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is placed in the family Depressariidae, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a subfamily of Oecophoridae or included in the Elachistidae.Pitki ...
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Busck, 1904
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Exaeretia ciniflonella
''Exaeretia ciniflonella'' is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found from Great Britain to Fennoscandia, south through Germany to Italy, east through Austria, Poland and the Baltic region to the eastern parts of the Palearcti ...
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(Lienig & Zeller, 1846)
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Exaeretia concaviuscula''
S.X. Wang, 2005
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Exaeretia conciliatella
''Exaeretia conciliatella'' is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Greece and on Sicily and the Canary Islands.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the oppos ...
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(Rebel, 1892)
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Exaeretia crassispina''
S.X. Wang, 2005
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Exaeretia culcitella
''Exaeretia culcitella'' is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia and Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning E ...
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(Herrich-Schaffer, 1854)
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Exaeretia daurella
''Exaeretia daurella'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Alexandr L. Lvovsky in 1998. It is found in Transbaikalia
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykal'ye, p=zəbɐjˈka ...
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Lvovsky, 1998
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Exaeretia deltata
''Exaeretia deltata'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by S.X. Wang in 2005. It is found in China (Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, auto ...
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S.X. Wang, 2005
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Exaeretia exornata''
S.X. Wang & Z. Zheng, 1998
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Exaeretia fulvus
''Exaeretia fulvus'' is a species of moth in the family Depressariidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1882. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New Brunswick and Maine to British Columbia, south to Arizo ...
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Walsingham, 1882
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Exaeretia fuscicostella
''Exaeretia fuscicostella'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1887. It is found in southern Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and western Pakistan ...
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(Christoph, 1887)
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Exaeretia fuscogriseella''
Hannemann, 1990
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Exaeretia gracilis''
Walsingham, 1889
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Exaeretia hermophila
''Exaeretia hermophila'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Guinea.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the op ...
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(Meyrick, 1922)
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Exaeretia hildaella
''Exaeretia hildaella'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1941. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
The wingspan
The wi ...
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Clarke, 1941
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Exaeretia indubitatella
''Exaeretia indubitatella'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in Mongolia and Russia (Altai Mountains, Tuva, Transbaikalia
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykal'ye, p=zəbɐjˈka ...
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(Hannemann, 1971)
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Exaeretia kozhantshikovi
''Exaeretia kozhantshikovi'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Alexandr L. Lvovsky in 2013. It is found in central Russia (Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and admini ...
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Lvovsky, 2013
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Exaeretia ledereri''
(Zeller, 1854)
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Exaeretia lepidella''
(Christoph, 1872)
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Exaeretia liupanshana''
S.X. Wang, in Liu & Wang, 2010
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Exaeretia longifolia''
S.X. Wang, 2005
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Exaeretia lusciosa''
(Meyrick, 1915)
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Exaeretia lutosella''
(Herrich-Schaffer, 1854)
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Exaeretia magnignatha''
S.X. Wang & Z. Zheng, 1998
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Exaeretia mesosceptra''
(Meyrick, 1915)
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Exaeretia mongolicella''
(Christoph, 1882)
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Exaeretia montuesellus''
(Hannemann, 1976)
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Exaeretia nebulosella
''Exaeretia nebulosella'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Aristide Caradja in 1920. It is found in Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of ...
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(Caradja, 1920)
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Exaeretia nechlys
''Exaeretia nechlys'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona to California and in Nevada.
The larvae feed on ''Sidalcea malviflora'', ''Malva'', ''Malacothamnus jonesii'' and ...
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Hodges, 1975
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Exaeretia nigromaculata''
Hannemann, 1989
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Exaeretia nivalis''
Braun, 1921
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Exaeretia niviferella''
(Christoph, 1872)
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Exaeretia praeustella''
(Rebel, 1917)
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Exaeretia preisseckeri''
(Rebel, 1937)
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Exaeretia qinghaiana''
S.X. Wang & Zheng, 1996
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Exaeretia relegata
''Exaeretia relegata'' is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920. It is found on the Juan Fernandez Islands
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew ori ...
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(Meyrick, 1920)
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Exaeretia remotella''
(Hannemann, 1971)
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Exaeretia scabella''
Zeller, 1873
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Exaeretia significa''
(Meyrick, 1915)
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Exaeretia sordidella''
Clarke, 1941
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Exaeretia sutschanensis''
(Hannemann, 1953)
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Exaeretia thoracefasciella''
Chambers, 1875
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Exaeretia thoracenigraeella''
Chambers, 1875
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Exaeretia umbraticostella''
Walsingham, 1881
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Exaeretia vladimiri''
Lvovsky, 1984
Footnotes
References
* (2009)
''Exaeretia'' Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2012-JAN-24.
* (2004)
Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species&ndash
''Exaeretia'' Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2012-JAN-24.
* (2010): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash
Version of 2003-DEC-29. Retrieved 2012-JAN-24.
* , 1990: Neue Depressarien (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 37 (1-3): 137–144. Abstract: .
* ; 2010: One new species and three newly recorded species of the genus ''Exaeretia'' Stainton, 1849 (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Depressariinae) from China
2444: 45–50
Preview* , 1849, ''Trans. Ent. Soc. London'' (1) 5: 152.
* , 2005, A review of the genus ''Exaeretia'' from China, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae), ''Oriental Insects'' 39: 147-155.
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Moth genera