''Wegneria'' is a
genus
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of
moth
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s belonging to the
family
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Tineidae
Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. ...
.
Species
Some species of this genus are:
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Wegneria acervalis''
(Meyrick, 1914) (from Malawi)
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Wegneria astragalodes''
(Meyrick, 1922) (from Uganda)
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Wegneria cavernicola''
Diakonoff, 1951
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Wegneria cerodelta''
(Meyrick, 1911) (from India, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand)
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Wegneria chrysophthalma''
(Meyrick, 1934) (from Uganda)
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Wegneria encharacta''
(Meyrick, 1915) (from India)
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Wegneria impotens''
(Meyrick, 1915) (from India)
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Wegneria lachanitis''
(Meyrick, 1906) (from India, Sri Lanka)
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Wegneria oxydesma''
(Meyrick, 1918) (from India)
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Wegneria plasturga''
(Meyrick, 1911) (from India)
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Wegneria panchalcella''
(Staudinger 1871) (from Algeria, Canaries, Greece, Hungary and Ukraine)
Zdenko & Buschmann, 2012. Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger, 1871), new records of Tineidae for Hungary and Central Europe (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) Microlepidoptera.hu 5: 39–42.
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*'' Wegneria scaeozona'' (Meyrick, 1920) (from Kenya)
*'' Wegneria speciosa'' (Meyrick, 1914) (from Nigeria)
*'' Wegneria spherotoma'' (Meyrick, 1911) (from India)
*'' Wegneria subtilis'' (Diankonoff, 1955) (from New Guinea)
*'' Wegneria villiersi'' (Viette, 1955) (from Guinea)
References
*Diakonoff, 1951 . Zool. Meded. Leiden 31 : 131.
Hieroxestinae
Tineidae genera
Taxa named by Alexey Diakonoff
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