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Niditinea
Brown-dotted clothes moth (N. fuscella), adult specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Tineinae
Genus:	Niditinea Petersen, 1957
Type species
Tinea fuscipunctella Haworth, 1828
Diversity
12–13 species
Synonyms
"Tineidia" Zagulayev, 1960 (nomen nudum)

Niditinea is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae.

Species

The 12 or 13 species currently placed in Niditinea are:

• Niditinea baryspilas (Meyrick, 1937) (= N. unipunctella)
• Niditinea contrariella Zeller, 1877
• Niditinea erschoffi Zagulayev, 1983
• Niditinea fuscella – brown-dotted clothes moth
• Niditinea nigrocapitella Zagulajev, 1960
• Niditinea orleansella (Chambers, 1873)
• Niditinea pallidorsella (Zeller, 1877)
• Niditinea piercella (Bentinck, 1935) (= N. ignotella (Zagulajev, 1956; non Walker, 1863: preoccupied), N. distinguenda. Sometimes in striolella)
• Niditinea praeumbrata (Meyrick, 1919) (= N. negreai, N. scotocleptes)
• Niditinea sinensis Petersen & Gaedike, 1993
• Niditinea striolella (Matsumura, 1931) (= N. pacifella, N. semidivisa)
• Niditinea truncicolella (Tengström, 1848) (= N. rosenbergerella)
• Niditinea tugurialis (Meyrick, 1932)

References

• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Niditinea. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Niditinea. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – "Tineidia". Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.
• Robinson, Gaden S. [2010]: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera). Retrieved 2010-MAY-05.