Bryotropha
Adult Bryotropha terrella at Commanster (Belgian Ardennes)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Subfamily:	Gelechiinae
Genus:	Bryotropha Heinemann, 1870[1]
Type species
Tinea terrella Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
Species
Many, see text
Synonyms
[2] Briotropha (lapsus) Bryothropha (lapsus) Bryotrocha (lapsus) Mniophaga Pierce & Daltry, 1938 Adelphotropha Gozmány, 1955

Bryotropha is a genus of the twirler moth family (Gelechiidae). Among these, it is placed in the tribe Anomologini of subfamily Gelechiinae; the tribe was formerly considered a distinct subfamily Anomologinae.^[3]

Species

Species of Bryotropha are:^[4]

• horribilis-group
  • Bryotropha horribilis Rutten & Karsholt, 2005
  • Bryotropha sabulosella (Rebel, 1905)
• domestica-group
  • Bryotropha domestica (Haworth, 1828)
  • Bryotropha vondermuhlli Nel & Brusseaux, 2003
• terrella-group
  • Bryotropha rossica Anikin & Piskunov, 1996
  • Bryotropha azovica Bidzilia, 1997
  • Bryotropha arabica Amsel, 1952
  • Bryotropha brevivalvata Li & Zheng, 1997
  • Bryotropha patockai Elsner & Karsholt, 2003
  • Bryotropha purpurella (Zetterstedt, 1839)
  • Bryotropha parapurpurella Bidzilya, 1998
  • Bryotropha elegantula Li & Zheng, 1997
  • Bryotropha tachyptilella (Rebel, 1916)
  • Bryotropha italica Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
  • Bryotropha politella (Stainton, 1851)
  • Bryotropha aliterrella (Rebel, 1935)
  • Bryotropha nupponeni Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
  • Bryotropha terrella
  • Bryotropha sattleri Nel, 2003
  • Bryotropha desertella (Douglas, 1850)
  • Bryotropha palliptera Li & Wang, 2000
  • Bryotropha wolschrijni Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
  • Bryotropha heckfordi Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
• similis-group
  • Bryotropha figulella (Staudinger, 1859)
  • Bryotropha plantariella (Tengström, 1848)
  • Bryotropha galbanella (Zeller, 1839)
  • Bryotropha gemella Rutten & Karsholt, 2004
  • Bryotropha boreella (Douglas, 1851)
  • Bryotropha phycitiniphila Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
  • Bryotropha sutteri Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
  • Bryotropha gallurella Amsel, 1952
  • Bryotropha hendrikseni Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
  • Bryotropha pallorella Amsel, 1952 (= B. mulinoides)
  • Bryotropha hulli Karsholt & Rutten, 2005
  • Bryotropha plebejella (Zeller, 1847)
  • Bryotropha dryadella (Zeller, 1850) (= B. saralella)
  • Bryotropha basaltinella (Zeller, 1839)
  • Bryotropha affinis (Haworth, 1828)
  • Bryotropha umbrosella (Zeller, 1839) (= B. mundella)
  • Bryotropha similis (Stainton, 1854) (= B. dufraneella)
  • Bryotropha svenssoni Park, 1984
  • Bryotropha senectella (Zeller, 1839)
  • Bryotropha hodgesi Rutten & Karsholt, 2004
  • Bryotropha branella (Busck, 1908)
  • Bryotropha altitudophila Rutten & Karsholt, 2004
  • Bryotropha montana Li & Zheng, 1997

Former species

• Bryotropha plurilineella Chrét (nomen nudum)

Footnotes

References

• Media related to Bryotropha at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Bryotropha at Wikispecies
• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2009): Bryotropha. 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 – Bryotropha. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Savela, Markku (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Bryotropha. Version of 2001-NOV-08. Retrieved 2010-APR-30.
• Bidzilya, O., 2000: New records of gelechiid moths from the Southern Siberia with description of three new species. Beiträge zur Entomologie 50 (2): 385-395.
• Elsner, G. & O. Karsholt, 2003: Bryotropha patockai sp. nov.- a new species of Gelechiidae from eastern Centra Europe (Lepidoptera). Entomologische Zeitschrift 113 (3): 72-74.
• Rutten, Twan & Ole Karsholt, 2004, Review of the Nearctic species of Bryotropha Heinemann (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 740: 1-42.