Tinea is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of the fungus moth family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Tineinae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus

Type genus

In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...

 of its subfamily and family. Established as one of the very first subgroups of "Phalaena

Phalaena

Phalaena is an obsolete genus Lepidoptera used by Carl Linnaeus to house most moths.Phalaena was one of three genera used by Linnaeus to cover all Lepidoptera. Papilio included all butterflies at that time, Sphinx included all hawk moths, and Phalaena included all the remaining moths...

", it used to contain many species of Tineidae that are nowadays placed in other genera, as well as a few moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

s nowadays placed elsewhere.

Synonyms

Junior synonyms of Tinea are:

• Acedes Hübner, [1825]
• Autoses Hübner, [1825]
• Chrysoryctis Meyrick, 1886
• Dystinea Börner in Brohmer, 1925
• Monopina Zagulyaev, 1955
• Scleroplasta Meyrick, 1919
• Ses Hübner, 1822
• Taenia
  Taenia (tapeworm)
  Taenia is a genus of tapeworm that includes some important parasites of livestock. Members of the genus are responsible for taeniasis and cysticercosis in humans. There are more than 100 species recorded...
  
  (lapsus
  Lapsus
  A lapsus is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking. According to Freud's early psychoanalytic theory, a lapsus represents a missed deed that hides an unconscious desire....
  
  ; non Linnaeus, 1758: preoccupied)
• Tinaea (lapsus)
• Tinearia Rafinesque, 1815 (unjustified emendation; non Schellenberg, 1803: preoccupied)
• Tineopis Zagulyaev, 1960

Edosa

Edosa

Edosa are a genus of insect, belonging to the family Tineidae....

is sometimes included in Tinea; it is here treated as doubtfully distinct genus for the time being.