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Depressaria
Depressaria is a genus of moths in 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.
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. John Curtis also popularized another incorrect spelling, D. heracleana, apparently first introduced (as Pyralis heracleana) by Johan Christian Fabricius in his 1775 Systema Entomologiae.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Purple Carrot-seed Moth
speciesDepressaria depressana
Parsnip Webworm
speciesDepressaria radiella
Dingy Flat-body
speciesDepressaria daucella
Depressaria albipunctella
speciesDepressaria albipunctella
Yarrow Webworm
speciesDepressaria alienella
Depressaria olerella
speciesDepressaria olerella
Depressaria badiella
speciesDepressaria badiella
Depressaria chaerophylli
speciesDepressaria chaerophylli
Depressaria emeritella
speciesDepressaria emeritella
Depressaria pimpinellae
speciesDepressaria pimpinellae
Depressaria douglasella
speciesDepressaria douglasella
Depressaria ululana
speciesDepressaria ululana
Depressaria leucocephala
speciesDepressaria leucocephala
Depressaria pulcherrimella
speciesDepressaria pulcherrimella
Depressaria cinereocostella
speciesDepressaria cinereocostella
Depressaria irregularis
speciesDepressaria irregularis
Depressaria sordidatella
speciesDepressaria sordidatella
Depressaria marcella
speciesDepressaria marcella
Depressaria absynthiella
speciesDepressaria absynthiella
Depressaria ultimella
speciesDepressaria ultimella
Depressaria veneficella
speciesDepressaria veneficella
Depressaria artemisiella
speciesDepressaria artemisiella
Depressaria taciturna
speciesDepressaria taciturna
Depressaria hystricella
speciesDepressaria hystricella
Depressaria artemisiae
speciesDepressaria artemisiae
Depressaria beckmanni
speciesDepressaria beckmanni
Depressaria adustatella
speciesDepressaria adustatella
Depressaria fuscovirgatella
speciesDepressaria fuscovirgatella
Depressaria moya
speciesDepressaria moya
Depressaria peniculatella
speciesDepressaria peniculatella
Depressaria krasnowodskella
speciesDepressaria krasnowodskella
Depressaria silesiaca
speciesDepressaria silesiaca
Depressaria tenebricosa
speciesDepressaria tenebricosa
Depressaria zelleri
speciesDepressaria zelleri
Depressaria libanotidella
speciesDepressaria libanotidella
Depressaria togata
speciesDepressaria togata
Depressaria erinaceella
speciesDepressaria erinaceella
Depressaria radiosquamella
speciesDepressaria radiosquamella
Depressaria betina
speciesDepressaria betina
Depressaria incognitella
speciesDepressaria incognitella
Depressaria eleanorae
speciesDepressaria eleanorae
Depressaria schellbachi
speciesDepressaria schellbachi
Depressaria leptotaeniae
speciesDepressaria leptotaeniae
Depressaria eryngiella
speciesDepressaria eryngiella
Depressaria discipunctella
speciesDepressaria discipunctella
Depressaria subalbipunctella
speciesDepressaria subalbipunctella
Depressaria velox
speciesDepressaria velox
Depressaria dictamnella
speciesDepressaria dictamnella
Depressaria colossella
speciesDepressaria colossella
Depressaria heraclei
speciesDepressaria heraclei
Depressaria heydenii
speciesDepressaria heydenii
Depressaria longipennella
speciesDepressaria longipennella
Depressaria angustati
speciesDepressaria angustati
Depressaria cervicella
speciesDepressaria cervicella
Depressaria halophilella
speciesDepressaria halophilella
Depressaria pseudobadiella
speciesDepressaria pseudobadiella
Depressaria afghanella
speciesDepressaria afghanella
Depressaria rubricella
speciesDepressaria rubricella
Depressaria bantiella
speciesDepressaria bantiella
Depressaria atrostrigella
speciesDepressaria atrostrigella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 143279.