Kingdom Animalia Division Ditrysia Subfamily Oecophorinae Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Family Oecophoridae Scientific name Esperia Rank Genus | |
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Similar Esperia sulphurella, Butterflies and moths, Alabonia, Esperia oliviella, Alabonia geoffrella | ||
Esperia is a genus of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Oecophorinae. Most authors include Dasycera here, though approaches that generally follow a "splitting" approach sometimes do not.
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The type species of Esperia (originally described as Tinea orbonella, now E. sulphurella) has some differences versus the type species of Dasycera (originally described as T. aemulella, now E. oliviella), but these are slight and at present it is not determined whether they justify the maintenance of two small genera versus a more comprehensive genus containing two subgenera.
Selected species
Species of Esperia (including Dasycera) include:
Synonyms
Invalid scientific names (junior synonyms and others) of Esperia are:
References
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