• Source: Esperia (moth)

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.
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:

Esperia imitatrix (Zeller, 1847)
Esperia krueperella (Staudinger, 1871)
Esperia oliviella
Esperia sulphurella




Synonyms


Invalid scientific names (junior synonyms and others) of Esperia are:

Dasycera Stephens 1829 (but see above)
Dasycerus Haworth 1828 (non Brongniart, 1800: preoccupied)
Gnaphalodeocera Agassiz, 1847 (unjustified emendation)
Gnaphalodocera Blanchard, 1840
Hermiona Blanchard, 1845
Stenoptera Duponchel, 1838




Footnotes






References


Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009a): Dasycera. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-APR-27.
Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009b): Esperia. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-APR-27.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Dasycera. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-APR-27.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Esperia. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-APR-27.
Savela, Markku (2003): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Esperia. Version of 2003-DEC-29 Retrieved 2010-APR-27.

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• Esperia (moth)
• Esperia (disambiguation)
• Esperia oliviella
• List of moths of Great Britain (micromoths)
• Esperia sulphurella
• List of moths of Austria (N–O)
• List of Lepidoptera of Serbia and Montenegro
• List of moths of Ireland
• Oecophora
• List of Lepidoptera of the Netherlands