Monopis
Monopis is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae.[1]
| Monopis | |
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| Adult specimen of Monopis obviella Note translucent spot in forewing | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Subfamily: | Tineinae |
| Genus: | Monopis Hübner, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Tinea rusticella Hübner, 1796 | |
| Species | |
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Numerous, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Numerous, see text | |
A typical feature of these moths is a semi-transparent pale spot near the middle of the forewings. There usually are contrasting white markings adjacent to it. Otherwise, the forewings are generally unpatterned and brown to blackish-grey in color.
Hyalospila is a synonym. The snout moth genus Zonula (moth) was invalidly described by Ragonot in 1888; the geometer moth genus Locha was invalidly described by Warren in 1894.
Selected species
Species currently placed in Monopis include:[2]
- Monopis argillacea (Meyrick, 1893)
- Monopis burmanni Petersen, 1979
- Monopis chrysogramma (Lower, 1899)
- Monopis cirrhospila Turner, 1923
- Monopis congestella (Walker, 1864)
- Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859) (= M. heringi, M. hyalinella, M. lombardica)
- Monopis dimorphella Dugdale, 1971
- Monopis dorsistrigella (Clemens, 1859) (= M. subjunctella)
- Monopis ethelella (Newman, 1856)
- Monopis fenestratella (Heyden, 1863)
- Monopis henderickxi Gaedike & Karsholt 2001
- Monopis icterogastra – wool moth
- Monopis imella
- Monopis jacobsi Gozmány, 1967
- Monopis laevigella – skin moth
- Monopis longella
- Monopis marginistrigella (Chambers, 1873) (= M. irrorella)
- Monopis megalodelta Meyrick, 1908
- Monopis meliorella (Walker, 1863)
- Monopis monacha Zagulajev, 1972
- Monopis monachella
- Monopis mycetophilella Powell, 1967
- Monopis nigricantella (Millière, 1872)
- Monopis obviella
- Monopis ochroptila Turner, 1923
- Monopis ornithias (Meyrick, 1888)
- Monopis pallidella Zagulajev, 1955
- Monopis pavlovskii Zagulajev, 1955
- Monopis pentadisca Meyrick, 1924
- Monopis spilotella (Tengström, 1848) (= M. biflavimaculella, M. halospila, M. insignisella)
- Monopis stichomela (Lower, 1900)
- Monopis straminella Zagulajev, 1958
- Monopis trigonoleuca Turner, 1917
- Monopis weaverella (Scott, 1858)
M. christophi is either a junior synonym of M. pallidella or the senior synonym of M. straminella. Also placed here by some authors is Reisserita barbarosi.[3]
Synonyms
Junior synonyms of Monopis are:[4]
- Blabophanes Zeller, 1852
- Eusynopa Lower, 1903
- Hyalospila Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
- Rhitia Walker, 1864
Footnotes
- Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)
- ABRS (2008), FE (2009), Robinson [2010], and see references in Savela (2003)
- FE (2009), Robinson [2010]
- ABRS (2008), Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)
References
- Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Monopis. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
- Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Monopis. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Monopis. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
- Robinson, Gaden S. [2010]: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.
- Savela, Markku (2003): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Monopis. Version of 2003-DEC-28. Retrieved 2010-MAY-09.