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Denisia

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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, [1825]: 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.[1]

Selected species

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Species of Denisia include:[2]

Footnotes

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  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.

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