''Parornix'' is a genus of

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in 1910.

Species

*'' Parornix acuta'' Triberti, 1980 *'' Parornix alni'' Kumata, 1965 *'' Parornix alpicola'' (Wocke, 1877) *'' Parornix alta'' (Braun, 1925) *'' Parornix altaica'' Noreika & Bidzilya, 2006 *'' Parornix ampliatella'' (Stainton, 1850) *'' Parornix anglicella'' (Stainton, 1850) *'' Parornix anguliferella'' (Zeller, 1847) *'' Parornix arbitrella'' (Dietz, 1907) *''

Parornix arbutifoliella ''Parornix arbutifoliella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Pennsylvania and Maine in the United States. The larvae feed on '' Photinia pyrifolia''. They mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or ...

'' (Dietz, 1907) *''

Parornix asiatica ''Parornix asiatica'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. The larvae feed on Rosaceae species. They probably mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging *Miner, a p ...

'' Noreika, 1991 *'' Parornix atripalpella'' Wahlström, 1979 *'' Parornix betulae'' (Stainton, 1854) *'' Parornix bifurca'' Triberti, 1998 *''

Parornix boreasella ''Parornix'' is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae. The genus was Species description, raised by the German Entomology, entomologist Arnold Spuler in 1910. Species *''Parornix acuta'' Triberti, 1980 *''Parornix alni'' Kumata, 1965 ...

'' (Clemens, 1864) *''

Parornix carpinella ''Parornix carpinella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Sweden to the Pyrenees, Italy and Greece and from Great Britain to Russia. The wingspan is 8–10 mm. The larvae feed on ''Acer platanoides'', ''Acer pseudopl ...

'' (Frey, 1863) *''

Parornix compressa ''Parornix compressa'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Afghanistan and Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by po ...

'' Triberti, 1990 *''

Parornix compsumpta ''Parornix compsumpta'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Peloponnisos region in Greece and North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europ ...

'' Triberti, 1987 *''

Parornix concussa ''Parornix concussa'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Jammu and Kashmir, India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh ...

'' (Meyrick, 1933) *''

Parornix conspicuella ''Parornix conspicuella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Québec, Canada, and Pennsylvania, Maine, Michigan and Vermont in the United States. The larvae feed on ''Betula nigra''. They mine Mine, mines, miners or minin ...

'' (Dietz, 1907) *''

Parornix cotoneasterella ''Parornix cotoneasterella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. The larvae feed on '' Cotoneaster avellana'' and ''Cotoneaster hissarica''. They probably mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may ...

'' Kuznetzov, 1978 *''

Parornix crataegifoliella ''Parornix crataegifoliella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada (Québec and Nova Scotia) the United States (including Maine, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Maryland and Illinois). The larvae feed on ''Amelanchier'' species ...

'' (Clemens, 1860) *''

Parornix devoniella ''Parornix devoniella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae found in Europe. The larvae are leaf miners, feeding on the tissue inside the leaves of hazels ''Corylus'' species. Description The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The head is whitish m ...

'' (Stainton, 1850) *''

Parornix dubitella ''Parornix dubitella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Pennsylvania and Maine Maine ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Contiguous Unite ...

'' (Dietz, 1907) *'' Parornix ermolaevi'' Kuznetzov, 1979 *'' Parornix errantella'' (Walsingham, 1897) *'' Parornix extrema'' Kuznetzov & Baryschnikova, 2003 *'' Parornix fagivora'' (Frey, 1861) *'' Parornix festinella'' (Clemens, 1860) *'' Parornix finitimella'' (Zeller, 1850) *'' Parornix fragilella'' Triberti, 1981 *'' Parornix fumidella'' Kuznetzov, 1979 *'' Parornix geminatella'' (Packard, 1869) *'' Parornix hastata'' Triberti, 1990 *'' Parornix impressipenella'' (Bilimek, 1867) *'' Parornix incerta'' Triberti, 1982 *'' Parornix innotata'' (Walsingham, 1907) *'' Parornix inusitatumella'' (Chambers, 1873) *'' Parornix kalmiella'' (Dietz, 1907) *'' Parornix kugitangi'' Noreika, 1991 *'' Parornix kumatai'' Ermolaev, 1993 *'' Parornix loganella'' (Stainton, 1848) *'' Parornix loricata'' Triberti, 1998 *'' Parornix maliphaga'' Kuznetzov, 1979 *'' Parornix maura'' Triberti, 1998 *'' Parornix melanotella'' (Dietz, 1907) *'' Parornix micrura'' Walsingham, 1914 *'' Parornix minor'' Kumata, 1965 *'' Parornix mixta'' (Triberti, 1980) *'' Parornix multimaculata'' (Matsumura, 1931) *'' Parornix obliterella'' (Dietz, 1907) *'' Parornix oculata'' (Triberti, 1979) *'' Parornix ornatella'' Triberti, 1981 *'' Parornix peregrinaella'' (Darlington, 1949) *'' Parornix persicella'' Danilevsky, 1955 *'' Parornix petiolella'' (Frey, 1863) *''

Parornix polygrammella ''Parornix polygrammella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Fennoscandia, Estonia, northern Russia and France. The larvae feed on ''Betula nana''. They leaf miner, mine the leaves of their host plant. References

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'' (Wocke, 1862) *''

Parornix preciosella ''Parornix preciosella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Québec, Canada, and Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Vermont in the United States. The larvae feed on ''Vaccinium corymbosum'' and ''Prunus virginiana''. They mine ...

'' (Dietz, 1907) *'' Parornix quadripunctella'' (Clemens, 1861) *'' Parornix retrusella'' Kuznetzov, 1979 *'' Parornix scoticella'' (Stainton, 1850) *'' Parornix spiraeifoliella'' (Braun, 1918) *'' Parornix strobivorella'' (Dietz, 1907) *'' Parornix subfinitimella'' Kuznetzov, 1956 *'' Parornix szocsi'' (Gozmány, 1952) *'' Parornix tenella'' (Rebel, 1919) *'' Parornix texanella'' (Busck, 1906) *'' Parornix torquillella'' (Zeller, 1850) *'' Parornix traugotti'' Svensson, 1976 *'' Parornix trepidella'' (Clemens, 1860) *'' Parornix turcmeniella'' Kuznetzov, 1956 *'' Parornix vicinella'' (Dietz, 1907)

Taxonomy

The genus ''Paronix'' comes from ''para'', meaning alongside and ''ornix'' named after the

'' Ornix'' Treitschke, 1833, which refers to ''ornis'', a bird. The genus ''Ornix'' originally included a wide range of feathery-winged

microlepidoptera Microlepidoptera (micromoths) is an artificial (i.e., unranked and not monophyletic) grouping of moth families, commonly known as the "smaller moths" ( micro, Lepidoptera). These generally have wingspans of under 20 mm, so are harder to iden ...

in the

Coleophoridae The Coleophoridae are a family of small moths, belonging to the huge superfamily Gelechioidea. Collectively known as case-bearers, casebearing moths or case moths, this family is represented on all continents, but the majority are found in temp ...

and the

. ''Ornix'' was an early

synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are a ...

of the genus ''

Coleophora ''Coleophora'' is a very large genus of moths of the family Coleophoridae. It contains some 1,350 described species. The genus is represented on all continents, but the majority are found in the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions. Many authors have t ...

'' as a number of moths were named after birds. The feathery-winged moths were later restricted to ''Paronix''.

References

External links

Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae Gracillarioidea genera {{Parornix-stub