Kessleria

Short description: Genus of moths

Kessleria

Kessleria alpmaritimae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Yponomeutidae
Subfamily:  | Yponomeutinae
Genus:  | Kessleria
Nowicki, 1864
Species

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Synonyms

* Hofmannia Heinemann & Wocke, 1877
* Paradoxus Stainton, 1869
* Circostola Meyrick, 1889
* Euhyponomeutoides Gaj, 1954 (disputed)
* Parahyponomeuta Toll, 1941 (disputed)

Kessleria is a genus of moths of the family Yponomeutidae.

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 Unplaced
* 3 Former species
* 4 References

## Species

* Subgenus Kessleria
* Kessleria alpicella-group
* Kessleria alpicella \- (Stainton, 1851)
* Kessleria mixta \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria alternans-group
* Kessleria alpmaritimae \- Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
* Kessleria alternans \- (Staudinger, 1870)
* Kessleria cottiensis \- Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
* Kessleria dimorpha \- Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
* Kessleria wehrlii \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria petrobiella-group
* Kessleria nivescens \- Burmann, 1980
* Kessleria petrobiella \- (Zeller, 1868)
* Kessleria albanica-group
* Kessleria albanica \- Friese, 1960
* Kessleria burmanni \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria hauderi \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria insubrica \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria macedonica \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria apenninica-group
* Kessleria apenninica \- Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
* Kessleria brachypterella \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria brevicornuta \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria diabolica \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria pyrenaea \- Friese, 1960
* Kessleria zimmermanni-group
* Kessleria albomaculata \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria caflischiella \- (Frey, 1880)
* Kessleria zimmermannii \- Novicki, 1864
* Kessleria albescens-group
* Kessleria albescens \- (Rebel, 1899)
* Kessleria helvetica \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria inexpectata \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria klimeschi \- Huemer & Tarmann, 1992
* Kessleria orobiae \- Huemer & Mutanen, 2015
* Subgenus Hofmannia Heinemann & Wocke, 1877
* Kessleria fasciapennella \- (Stainton, 1849)
* Kessleria saxifragae \- (Stainton, 1868)

## Unplaced

* Kessleria copidota \- (Meyrick, 1889)
* Kessleria corusca \- Meyrick, 1914
* Kessleria insulella \- Moriuti, 1977
* Kessleria malgassaella \- Viette, 1955
* Kessleria neuguineae \- Moriuti, 1981
* Kessleria nivosa \- (Meyrick, 1938)
* Kessleria parnassiae \- (Braun, 1940)
* Kessleria pseudosericella \- Moriuti, 1977

## Former species

* Kessleria longipenella \- Friese, 1960

## References

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* Friese, G., 1960: Revision der paläarktischen Yponomeutidae unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Genitalien (Lepidoptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 10 (1–2): 1–131. Abstraft: [1].
* Huemer, P. & Tarmann, G.M., 1991: Westpaläarktische Gespinstmotten der Gattung Kessleria Nowicki: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Verbeitung (Lep., Yponomeutidae). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 81: 5–110. Full article: [2].
* Peter Huemer, Marko Mutanen 2015: Alpha taxonomy of the genus Kessleria Nowicki, 1864, revisited in light of DNA-barcoding (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). ZooKeys, 503: 89-133. doi:10.3897/zookeys.503.9590

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