Full name:

Tineidae NHM: Global taxonomic database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)

Short name:

Tineidae NHM

Version:

1.0, Dec 2004

Release date:

December 7th, 2004

Authors/editors:

G Robinson

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Lepidoptera - Tineidae

Number of species names:

2,346 accepted names; 579 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

0 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

2,925

Abstract:

The Tineidae – the clothes-moth family – comprises more than 23,000 currently recognized species of small to medium-sized moths. They differ from all other Lepidoptera in their unorthodox larval biology: most tineid larvae feed on plant or animal detritus, lichen or fungi. In addition to the data available in the Catalogue of Life, this database also gives information on where, when and by whom each taxon was described, and where the original type specimen(s) came from.

Organization:

Natural History Museum, London, UK

Web site:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk./entomology/tineidae/index.html