Depressaria
Depressaria is a genus of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is the type genus of subfamily Depressariinae, which is often - particularly in older treatments - considered a distinct family Depressariidae or included in the Elachistidae, but actually seems to belong in the Oecophoridae.
The genus' type species is the parsnip moth. Its scientific name has been much confused for about 200 years. Adrian Hardy Haworth, on establishing the genus Depressaria in his 1811 issues of Lepidoptera Britannica, called the eventual type species Phalaena heraclei, an unjustified emendation of P. ''heracliana. In this he followed such entomologists of his time as Anders Jahan Retzius, who in 1783 had believed the parsnip moth to be a species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. But in fact, this was a misidentification; Linnaeus' moth was actually the one known today as Agonopterix heracliana. John Curtis also popularized another incorrect spelling, D. heracleana, apparently first introduced by Johan Christian Fabricius in his 1775 Systema Entomologiae''.
Species
New species of Depressaria continue to be discovered and described. Known species include:Depressaria absynthiella Herrich-Schäffer, 1865Depressaria adustatella Turati, 1927Depressaria albipunctella Depressaria alienella Busck, 1904 Depressaria altaica Zeller, 1854Depressaria angelicivora Clarke, 1952Depressaria angustati Clarke, 1941Depressaria armata Clarke, 1952Depressaria artemisiae Nickerl, 1864 Depressaria artemisiella McDunnough, 1927Depressaria assalella Chrétien, 1915Depressaria atrostrigella Clarke, 1941Depressaria basicostata Matsumura, 1931Depressaria badiella Depressaria beckmanni Heinemann, 1870Depressaria besma Clarke, 1947Depressaria betina Clarke, 1947Depressaria bupleurella Heinemann, 1870Depressaria cervicella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854Depressaria chaerophylli Zeller, 1839Depressaria chlorothorax Meyrick, 1921Depressaria cinderella Corley, 2002Depressaria cinereocostella Clemens, 1864 Depressaria clausulata Meyrick, 1911Depressaria colossella Caradja, 1920Depressaria compactella Caradja, 1920Depressaria constancei Clarke, 1947Depressaria corticinella Zeller, 1854Depressaria danilevskyi Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria daucella Depressaria daucivorella Ragonot, 1889Depressaria depressana - purple carrot-seed mothDepressaria despoliatella Erschoff, 1874Depressaria deverrella Chrétien, 1915Depressaria dictamnella Depressaria discipunctella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854Depressaria djakonovi Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria douglasella Stainton, 1849Depressaria eleanorae Clarke, 1941Depressaria emeritella Stainton, 1849Depressaria erinaceella Staudinger, 1870Depressaria eryngiella Millière, 1881Depressaria erzurumella Lvovsky, 1996Depressaria filipjevi Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria floridella Mann, 1864Depressaria fuscipedella Chrétien, 1915Depressaria fusconigerella Hanneman, 1990Depressaria fuscovirgatella Hannemann, 1967Depressaria gallicella Chrétien, 1908Depressaria genistella Walsingham, 1903Depressaria halophilella Chrétien, 1908Depressaria hannemanniana Lvovsky, 1990Depressaria heydenii Zeller, 1854Depressaria hofmanni Stainton, 1861Depressaria hystricella Moschler, 1860Depressaria hirtipalpis Zeller, 1854Depressaria illepida Hannemann, 1958Depressaria incognitella Hannemann, 1990Depressaria indecorella Rebel, 1917Depressaria indelibatella Hannemann, 1971Depressaria irregularis Matsumura, 1931Depressaria ivinskisi Lvovsky, 1990Depressaria jugurthella Depressaria juliella Busck, 1908Depressaria kailai Lvovsky, 2009Depressaria karmeliella Amsel, 1935Depressaria kasyi Hannemann, 1976Depressaria krasnowodskella Hannemann, 1953Depressaria kondarella Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria lacticapitella Klimesch, 1942Depressaria latisquamella Chrétien, 1922Depressaria leptotaeniae Clarke, 1933Depressaria leucocephala Snellen, 1884Depressaria libanotidella Schläger, 1849Depressaria longipennella Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria macrotrichella Rebel, 1917Depressaria manglisiella Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria marcella Rebel, 1901Depressaria millefoliella Chrétien, 1908Depressaria moranella Chrétien, 1907Depressaria moya Clarke, 1947Depressaria multifidae Clarke, 1933Depressaria nemolella Svensson, 1982Depressaria niphosyrphas Meyrick, 1931Depressaria nomia Butler, 1879Depressaria olerella Zeller, 1854Depressaria orthobathra Meyrick, 1918Depressaria palousella Clarke, 1941Depressaria peniculatella Turati, 1922Depressaria panurga Meyrick, 1920Depressaria parahofmanni Hannemann, 1958Depressaria pentheri Rebel, 1904Depressaria peregrinella Hannemann, 1967Depressaria petronoma Meyrick, 1934Depressaria pimpinellae Zeller, 1839Depressaria platytaeniella Hannemann, 1977Depressaria prospicua Meyrick, 1914Depressaria pteryxiphaga Clarke, 1952Depressaria pulcherrimella Stainton, 1849Depressaria pyrenaella Sumpich, 2013Depressaria radiella - parsnip moth Depressaria radiosquamella Walsingham, 1898Depressaria rhodoscelis Meyrick, 1920Depressaria rjabovi Lvovsky, 1990Depressaria rubripalpella Chrétien, 1922Depressaria ruticola Christoph, 1873Depressaria schaidurovi Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria schellbachi Clarke, 1947Depressaria sibirella Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria silesiaca Heinemann, 1870Depressaria sordidatella Tengström, 1848 Depressaria spectrocentra Meyrick, 1935Depressaria subalbipunctella Lvovsky, 1981Depressaria subhirtipalpis Hannemann, 1958Depressaria subnervosa Oberthür, 1888Depressaria tenebricosa Zeller, 1854Depressaria togata Walsingham, 1889 Depressaria ultimella Stainton, 1849Depressaria ululana Rössler, 1866Depressaria varzobella Lvovsky, 1982Depressaria velox Staudinger, 1859Depressaria veneficella Zeller, 1847Depressaria venustella Hannemann, 1990Depressaria whitmani Clarke, 1941Depressaria yakimae Clarke, 1941Depressaria zelleri Staudinger, 1879Some other Oecophoridae were formerly included here, among them close relatives of the present genus, as well as more distantly related taxa. Horridopalpus is sometimes still included in Depressaria as a subgenus, but may be a far more distant relative. The members of the proposed subgenus Hasenfussia are tentatively retained here on the other hand, but their relationship to other Depressaria requires further study.