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Genus of moths For genera invalidly described as Denisia, see List of trilobite genera § Theodenisia, and Isotomiella.

Denisia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Tribe: Oecophorini
Genus: Denisia
Hübner, 1825
Type species
Phalaena stipella
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms

Blepharocera Chambers, 1877 (non Agassiz, 1846: preoccupied)
Borkhausenia (auct. non Hübner, : misidentified)
Chambersia Riley, 1891

Denisia is a genus of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Oecophorinae. It was originally established as a subgenus of Borkhausenia.

Selected species

Species of Denisia include:

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)
  2. FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)
  3. HUEMER, P. (June 2001). "Denisia fuscicapitella sp.n., eine neue Schmetterlingsart der Südwestalpen (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae)" (PDF). www.zobodat.at.
  4. "Denisia fuscicapitella Huemer, 2001". Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel.

References

Taxon identifiers
Denisia


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