Brachmia

Brachmia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Gelechioidea
Family:	Gelechiidae
Subfamily:	Dichomeridinae
Genus:	Brachmia Hübner, 1825
Type species
Tinea dimidiella Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
Species
Many, see text
Synonyms
See text

Brachmia is a genus of the twirler moth family (Gelechiidae). Among these, it is mostly placed in the subfamily Dichomeridinae.

Taxonomy

Other authors have used it as type genus of a distinct subfamily Brachmiinae. However, the "Brachmiinae" are considered an ill-defined assemblage of twirler moths whose relationships are not yet sufficiently determined, and the present genus is consequently sometimes placed incertae sedis within the Gelechiidae.

Species

The species of Brachmia are:

• Brachmia alienella (Walker, 1864)
• Brachmia amphisticta Meyrick, 1914
• Brachmia anisopa (Meyrick, 1918)
• Brachmia antichroa Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia apricata Meyrick, 1913
• Brachmia autonoma Meyrick, 1910
• Brachmia ballotellus (Amsel, 1935)
• Brachmia blandella (Fabricius, 1798)
• Brachmia brunnea (Bradley, 1961)
• Brachmia brunneolineata Legrand, 1966
• Brachmia carphodes (Meyrick, 1908)
• Brachmia cenchritis Meyrick, 1911
• Brachmia circumfusa Meyrick, 1922
• Brachmia consummata Meyrick, 1923
• Brachmia craterospila Meyrick, 1923
• Brachmia custos Meyrick, 1911
• Brachmia deltopis Meyrick, 1920
• Brachmia dilutiterminella (Gerasimov, 1930)
• Brachmia dimidiella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Brachmia ditemenitis Meyrick, 1934
• Brachmia dolosa Meyrick, 1911
• Brachmia dryotyphla Meyrick, 1937
• Brachmia episticta (Meyrick, 1905)
• Brachmia elaeophanes Meyrick, 1930
• Brachmia fuscogramma Janse, 1960
• Brachmia hedemanni Caradja, 1920
• Brachmia infixa Meyrick, 1938
• Brachmia infuscatella Rebel, 1940
• Brachmia inornatella (Douglas, 1850)
• Brachmia inspersa Meyrick, 1921
• Brachmia insuavis Meyrick, 1914
• Brachmia insulsa Meyrick, 1914
• Brachmia ioplaca Meyrick, 1934
• Brachmia japonicella (Zeller, 1877)
• Brachmia juridica Meyrick, 1911
• Brachmia leucopla Meyrick, 1938
• Brachmia leucospora Meyrick, 1938
• Brachmia liberta Meyrick, 1926
• Brachmia melicephala Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia metoeca (Meyrick, 1908)
• Brachmia monotona Caradja, 1927
• Brachmia murinula Turati, 1930
• Brachmia neuroplecta Meyrick, 1938
• Brachmia obtrectata Meyrick, 1922
• Brachmia officiosa Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia opaca Meyrick, 1927
• Brachmia orthomastix Meyrick, 1931
• Brachmia perumbrata Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia philochersa Meyrick, 1938
• Brachmia philodema Meyrick, 1938
• Brachmia planicola Meyrick, 1932
• Brachmia procursella Rebel, 1903
• Brachmia ptochodryas Meyrick, 1923
• Brachmia purificata (Meyrick, 1931)
• Brachmia quassata Meyrick, 1930
• Brachmia radiosella (Erschoff, 1874)
• Brachmia resoluta Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia sigillatrix Meyrick, 1910
• Brachmia sitiens Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia stactopis Meyrick, 1931
• Brachmia strigosa Meyrick, 1910
• Brachmia subsignata Diakonoff, 1954
• Brachmia superans (Meyrick, 1926)
• Brachmia syntonopis Meyrick, 1923
• Brachmia tepidata Meyrick, 1922
• Brachmia tholeromicta Meyrick, 1931
• Brachmia torva Meyrick, 1914
• Brachmia triophthalma (Meyrick, 1910)
• Brachmia vecors Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia velitaris Meyrick, 1913
• Brachmia xeronoma Meyrick, 1935

Status unknown

• Brachmia robustella Rebel, 1910, described from Herzegovina

Former species

• Brachmia ceramochroa (Turner, 1919)
• Brachmia convolvuli Walsingham, 1907
• Brachmia craticula Meyrick, 1921
• Brachmia fiscinata Meyrick, 1918
• Brachmia graphicodes Meyrick, 1914
• Brachmia hemiopa Meyrick, 1921
• Brachmia malacogramma Meyrick, 1909
• Brachmia musicopa Meyrick, 1908
• Brachmia nesidias Meyrick, 1911
• Brachmia neurograpta Meyrick, 1921
• Brachmia obfuscata Meyrick, 1921
• Brachmia pantheropa Meyrick, 1913
• Brachmia septella (Zeller, 1852)
• Brachmia spilopis Meyrick, 1927
• Brachmia trinervis (Meyrick, 1904)
• Brachmia verberata Meyrick, 1911

Synonyms

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

• Apethistis Meyrick, 1908
• Aulacomima Meyrick, 1904
• Braclunia Stephens, 1834 (unjustified emendation)
• Brahmia (lapsus)
• Cerathophora (lapsus)
• Ceratophora Heinemann, [1870] (non Gray, [1825]: preoccupied)
• Cladodes Heinemann, 1870 (non Solier, 1849: preoccupied)
• Eudodacles Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1889

References

• Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Brachmia. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Brachmia. Version 2.1, 2009-DEC-22. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Brachmia. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Savela, Markku (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Brachmia. Version of 2001-NOV-08. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.