Depressaria

Depressaria is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is the type genus of subfamily Depressariinae, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a distinct family Depressariidae or included in the Elachistidae, but actually seems to belong in the Oecophoridae.[1]

Depressaria
Purple carrot-seed moth imago (Depressaria depressana)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Family:	Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily:	Depressariinae (disputed)
Genus:	Depressaria Haworth, 1811
Type species
"Phalaena heraclei" sensu Haworth, 1811
Synonyms
Depressia (lapsus) Hasenfussia Fetz, 1994 (but see text) Piesta Billberg, 1820 Schistodepressaria Spuler, 1910 Siganorosis Wallengren, 1881 Volucra Latreille, 1829 (unjustified emendation) Volucrum Berthold, 1827

The genus' type species is the parsnip moth. Its scientific name has been much confused for about 200 years. Adrian Hardy Haworth, on establishing the genus Depressaria in his 1811 issues of Lepidoptera Britannica, called the eventual type species Phalaena heraclei, an unjustified emendation of P. (Tortrix) heracliana. In this he followed such entomologists of his time as Anders Jahan Retzius, who in 1783 had believed the parsnip moth to be a species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. But in fact, this was a misidentification; Linnaeus' moth was actually the one known today as Agonopterix heracliana. To make matters worse, John Curtis popularized another incorrect spelling, D. heracleana, apparently first introduced (as Pyralis heracleana) by Johan Christian Fabricius in his 1775 Systema Entomologiae.[2]

Species

New species of Depressaria continue to be discovered and described. Known species include:[3]

Depressaria absynthiella Herrich-Schäffer, 1865 Depressaria adustatella Turati, 1927 Depressaria albipunctella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (= D. aegopodiella, D. albipuncta) Depressaria alienella Busck, 1904 (= D. corystopa, D. nymphidia) Depressaria altaica Zeller, 1854 Depressaria angelicivora Clarke, 1952 Depressaria angustati Clarke, 1941 Depressaria armata Clarke, 1952 Depressaria artemisiae Nickerl, 1864 (= D. dracunculi) Depressaria artemisiella McDunnough, 1927 Depressaria assalella Chrétien, 1915 Depressaria atrostrigella Clarke, 1941 Depressaria basicostata Matsumura, 1931 Depressaria badiella (Hübner, 1796) Depressaria beckmanni Heinemann, 1870 Depressaria besma Clarke, 1947 Depressaria betina Clarke, 1947 Depressaria bupleurella Heinemann, 1870 Depressaria cervicella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 Depressaria chaerophylli Zeller, 1839 Depressaria chlorothorax Meyrick, 1921 Depressaria cinderella Corley, 2002 Depressaria cinereocostella Clemens, 1864 (= D. clausella) Depressaria clausulata Meyrick, 1911 Depressaria colossella Caradja, 1920 Depressaria compactella Caradja, 1920 Depressaria constancei Clarke, 1947 Depressaria corticinella Zeller, 1854 Depressaria danilevskyi Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria daucella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (= D. apiella, D. nervosa (sensu auct. non Haworth, 1811: misidentified), D. rubricella) Depressaria daucivorella Ragonot, 1889 Depressaria depressana – purple carrot-seed moth Depressaria despoliatella Erschoff, 1874 Depressaria deverrella Chrétien, 1915 Depressaria discipunctella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 Depressaria djakonovi Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria douglasella Stainton, 1849 Depressaria eleanorae Clarke, 1941 Depressaria emeritella Stainton, 1849 Depressaria erinaceella Staudinger, 1870 Depressaria eryngiella Millière, 1881 Depressaria erzurumella Lvovsky, 1996 Depressaria filipjevi Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria floridella Mann, 1864 Depressaria fuscipedella Chrétien, 1915 Depressaria fusconigerella Hanneman, 1990 Depressaria fuscovirgatella Hannemann, 1967 Depressaria gallicella Chrétien, 1908 Depressaria genistella Walsingham, 1903 Depressaria halophilella Chrétien, 1908 Depressaria hannemanniana Lvovsky, 1990 Depressaria heydenii Zeller, 1854 Depressaria hofmanni Stainton, 1861 Depressaria hirtipalpis Zeller, 1854 Depressaria illepida Hannemann, 1958 Depressaria incognitella Hannemann, 1990

Depressaria indecorella Rebel, 1917 Depressaria indelibatella Hannemann, 1971 Depressaria irregularis Matsumura, 1931 Depressaria ivinskisi Lvovsky, 1990 Depressaria jugurthella (Lucas, 1849) Depressaria juliella Busck, 1908 Depressaria kailai Lvovsky, 2009 Depressaria karmeliella Amsel, 1935 Depressaria kasyi Hannemann, 1976 Depressaria krasnowodskella Hannemann, 1953 Depressaria kondarella Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria lacticapitella Klimesch, 1942 Depressaria latisquamella Chrétien, 1922 Depressaria leptotaeniae Clarke, 1933 Depressaria leucocephala Snellen, 1884 Depressaria libanotidella Schläger, 1849 Depressaria longipennella Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria macrotrichella Rebel, 1917 Depressaria manglisiella Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria marcella Rebel, 1901 Depressaria millefoliella Chrétien, 1908 Depressaria moranella Chrétien, 1907 Depressaria moya Clarke, 1947 Depressaria multifidae Clarke, 1933 Depressaria nemolella Svensson, 1982 Depressaria niphosyrphas Meyrick, 1931 Depressaria nomia Butler, 1879 Depressaria olerella Zeller, 1854 Depressaria orthobathra Meyrick, 1918 Depressaria palousella Clarke, 1941 Depressaria peniculatella Turati, 1922 Depressaria panurga Meyrick, 1920 Depressaria parahofmanni Hannemann, 1958 Depressaria pentheri Rebel, 1904 Depressaria peregrinella Hannemann, 1967 Depressaria petronoma Meyrick, 1934 Depressaria pimpinellae Zeller, 1839 Depressaria platytaeniella Hannemann, 1977 Depressaria prospicua Meyrick, 1914 Depressaria pteryxiphaga Clarke, 1952 Depressaria pulcherrimella Stainton, 1849 Depressaria pyrenaella Sumpich, 2013 Depressaria radiella (Goeze, 1783) – parsnip moth (= D. heracleana, D. heraclei, D. heracliana (sensu auct. non (Linnaeus, 1758): misidentified), D. ontariella, D. pastinacella) Depressaria radiosquamella Walsingham, 1898 Depressaria rhodoscelis Meyrick, 1920 Depressaria rjabovi Lvovsky, 1990 Depressaria rubripalpella Chrétien, 1922 Depressaria ruticola Christoph, 1873 Depressaria schaidurovi Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria schellbachi Clarke, 1947 Depressaria sibirella Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria silesiaca Heinemann, 1870 Depressaria sordidatella Tengström, 1848 (= D. weirella) Depressaria spectrocentra Meyrick, 1935 Depressaria subalbipunctella Lvovsky, 1981 Depressaria subhirtipalpis Hannemann, 1958 Depressaria subnervosa Oberthür, 1888 Depressaria tenebricosa Zeller, 1854 Depressaria togata Walsingham, 1889 (= D. thustra) Depressaria ultimella Stainton, 1849 Depressaria ululana Rössler, 1866 Depressaria varzobella Lvovsky, 1982 Depressaria velox Staudinger, 1859 Depressaria veneficella Zeller, 1847 Depressaria venustella Hannemann, 1990 Depressaria whitmani Clarke, 1941 Depressaria yakimae Clarke, 1941 Depressaria zelleri Staudinger, 1879

Some other Oecophoridae were formerly included here, among them close relatives of the present genus (e.g. Psorosticha zizyphi and many species of Agonopterix), as well as more distantly related taxa (e.g. Ironopolia sobriella). Horridopalpus is sometimes still included in Depressaria as a subgenus (namely by sources that uprank Depressariinae to full family status), but may be a far more distant relative. The members of the proposed subgenus Hasenfussia are tentatively retained here on the other hand, but their relationship to other Depressaria requires further study.[3]

Unknown and undescribed species

• Depressaria albiocellata Staudinger, 1871, described from Greece
• Depressaria aurantiella Tutt, 1893, described from Great Britain
• Depressaria kollari Zeller, 1854, described from Australia
• Depressaria pavoniella (Amary, 1840) (Oecophora), described from France
• Depressaria reticulatella Bruand, 1851, described from France
• Depressaria sp. A 'Wyoming-California'
• Depressaria sp. B 'Modoc County, California'

Former species

• Depressaria tabghaella Amsel, 1935

Footnotes

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)
2. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)
3. FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)

References

• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Depressaria. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Depressaria. Version of 5 November 2004. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
• Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms – Depressaria. Version of 29 December 2003. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
• Busck, A., 1904. Tineid moths from British Columbia, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 27: 745–778.
• Hannemann, H. J., 1983: Neue Synonyme bei den Depressarien (Lep. Oecophoridae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 30 (4-5): 373–376. Abstract: doi:10.1002/mmnd.19830300403.
• Hannemann, H. J., 1990: Neue Depressarien (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 37 (1-3): 137–144. Abstract: doi:10.1002/mmnd.19900370126.
• Lvovsky, A. L., 2009: A new species of the genus Depressaria Haworth, 1811 (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae) from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Zoosystematica Rossica 18 (1): 70–72.
• Lvovsky, A. L., 2001: A review of Flat Moths of the genus Depressaria Haworth, 1811 (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae) of the fauna of Russia and neighboring Countries: 1. Entomological Review 81 (5): 520–541.
• Šumpich, J., 2013: Depressaria pyrenaella sp..n. – a confused species from South-Western Europe (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae). The Entomologist's Record and Journel of Variation 125 (3): 114–118.

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