Brachmia is a genus of the twirler moth family (Gelechiidae). Among these, it is mostly placed in the subfamily Dichomeridinae.
Other authors have used it as type genus of a distinct subfamily Brachmiinae. However, the "Brachmiinae" are considered an ill-defined assemblage of twirler moths whose relationships are not yet sufficiently determined, and the present genus is consequently sometimes placed incertae sedis within the Gelechiidae.
The species of Brachmia are:
Brachmia alienella (Walker, 1864)Brachmia amphisticta Meyrick, 1914Brachmia anisopa (Meyrick, 1918)Brachmia antichroa Meyrick, 1918Brachmia apricata Meyrick, 1913Brachmia autonoma Meyrick, 1910Brachmia ballotellus (Amsel, 1935)Brachmia blandella (Fabricius, 1798)Brachmia brunnea (Bradley, 1961)Brachmia brunneolineata Legrand, 1966Brachmia carphodes (Meyrick, 1908)Brachmia cenchritis Meyrick, 1911Brachmia circumfusa Meyrick, 1922Brachmia consummata Meyrick, 1923Brachmia craterospila Meyrick, 1923Brachmia custos Meyrick, 1911Brachmia deltopis Meyrick, 1920Brachmia dilutiterminella (Gerasimov, 1930)Brachmia dimidiella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)Brachmia ditemenitis Meyrick, 1934Brachmia dolosa Meyrick, 1911Brachmia dryotyphla Meyrick, 1937Brachmia episticta (Meyrick, 1905)Brachmia elaeophanes Meyrick, 1930Brachmia fuscogramma Janse, 1960Brachmia hedemanni Caradja, 1920Brachmia infixa Meyrick, 1938Brachmia infuscatella Rebel, 1940Brachmia inornatella (Douglas, 1850)Brachmia inspersa Meyrick, 1921Brachmia insuavis Meyrick, 1914Brachmia insulsa Meyrick, 1914Brachmia ioplaca Meyrick, 1934Brachmia japonicella (Zeller, 1877)Brachmia juridica Meyrick, 1911Brachmia leucopla Meyrick, 1938Brachmia leucospora Meyrick, 1938Brachmia liberta Meyrick, 1926Brachmia melicephala Meyrick, 1918Brachmia metoeca (Meyrick, 1908)Brachmia monotona Caradja, 1927Brachmia murinula Turati, 1930Brachmia neuroplecta Meyrick, 1938Brachmia obtrectata Meyrick, 1922Brachmia officiosa Meyrick, 1918Brachmia opaca Meyrick, 1927Brachmia orthomastix Meyrick, 1931Brachmia perumbrata Meyrick, 1918Brachmia philochersa Meyrick, 1938Brachmia philodema Meyrick, 1938Brachmia planicola Meyrick, 1932Brachmia procursella Rebel, 1903Brachmia ptochodryas Meyrick, 1923Brachmia purificata (Meyrick, 1931)Brachmia quassata Meyrick, 1930Brachmia radiosella (Erschoff, 1874)Brachmia resoluta Meyrick, 1918Brachmia sigillatrix Meyrick, 1910Brachmia sitiens Meyrick, 1918Brachmia stactopis Meyrick, 1931Brachmia strigosa Meyrick, 1910Brachmia subsignata Diakonoff, 1954Brachmia superans (Meyrick, 1926)Brachmia syntonopis Meyrick, 1923Brachmia tepidata Meyrick, 1922Brachmia tholeromicta Meyrick, 1931Brachmia torva Meyrick, 1914Brachmia triophthalma (Meyrick, 1910)Brachmia vecors Meyrick, 1918Brachmia velitaris Meyrick, 1913Brachmia xeronoma Meyrick, 1935Brachmia robustella Rebel, 1910, described from HerzegovinaBrachmia ceramochroa (Turner, 1919)Brachmia convolvuli Walsingham, 1907Brachmia craticula Meyrick, 1921Brachmia fiscinata Meyrick, 1918Brachmia graphicodes Meyrick, 1914Brachmia hemiopa Meyrick, 1921Brachmia malacogramma Meyrick, 1909Brachmia musicopa Meyrick, 1908Brachmia nesidias Meyrick, 1911Brachmia neurograpta Meyrick, 1921Brachmia obfuscata Meyrick, 1921Brachmia pantheropa Meyrick, 1913Brachmia septella (Zeller, 1852)Brachmia spilopis Meyrick, 1927Brachmia trinervis (Meyrick, 1904)Brachmia verberata Meyrick, 1911Invalid scientific names (junior synonyms and others) of Brachmia are:
Apethistis Meyrick, 1908Aulacomima Meyrick, 1904Braclunia Stephens, 1834 (unjustified emendation)Brahmia (lapsus)Cerathophora (lapsus)Ceratophora Heinemann, [1870] (non Gray, [1825]: preoccupied)Cladodes Heinemann, 1870 (non Solier, 1849: preoccupied)Eudodacles Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1889