''Teleiopsis'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s of the family
Gelechiidae
The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy (biology), taxonomy ...
.
Range
''Teleiopsis'' have a
Holarctic
The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...
distribution, with one exception. The centre of evolution is found in the area surrounding the
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...
.
Species
* ''
Teleiopsis albifemorella''
(E. Hofmann, 1867)
* ''
Teleiopsis bagriotella''
(Duponchel, 1840)
* ''
Teleiopsis baldiana''
(Barnes & Busck, 1920)
* ''
Teleiopsis brevivalva''
Pitkin, 1988
* ''
Teleiopsis diffinis''
(Haworth, 1828)
* ''
Teleiopsis insignita''
Pitkin, 1988
* ''
Teleiopsis latisacculus''
Pitkin, 1988
* ''
Teleiopsis lunariella''
(Walsingham, 1908)
* ''
Teleiopsis motleella''
Ponomarenko & Park, 2007
* ''
Teleiopsis paulheberti''
Huemer & Mutanen, 2012
* ''
Teleiopsis rosalbella''
(Fologne, 1862)
* ''
Teleiopsis sophistica''
(Meyrick, 1935)
* ''
Teleiopsis terebinthinella''
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1856)
* ''
Teleiopsis tchukotka''
Bidzilya, 2012
References
Teleiopsis at Fauna Europaea
Litini
Gelechiidae genera
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