Monopis

Monopis is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the nominate subfamily, Tineinae.

A typical feature of these moths is a semi-transparent pale spot near the middle of the forewings. There usually are contrasting white markings adjacent to it. Otherwise, the forewings are generally unpatterned and brown to blackish-grey in color.

Hyalospila is a synonym. The snout moth genus Zonula (moth) was invalidly described by Ragonot in 1888; the geometer moth genus Locha was invalidly described by Warren in 1894.

Selected species
Species currently placed in Monopis include:


 * Monopis argillacea (Meyrick, 1893)
 * Monopis burmanni Petersen, 1979
 * Monopis chrysogramma (Lower, 1899)
 * Monopis cirrhospila Turner, 1923
 * Monopis congestella (Walker, 1864)
 * Monopis crocicapitella (Clemens, 1859) (= M. heringi, M. hyalinella, M. lombardica)
 * Monopis dimorphella Dugdale, 1971
 * Monopis dorsistrigella (Clemens, 1859) (= M. subjunctella)
 * Monopis ethelella (Newman, 1856)
 * Monopis fenestratella (Heyden, 1863)
 * Monopis henderickxi Gaedike & Karsholt 2001
 * Monopis icterogastra – wool moth
 * Monopis imella
 * Monopis jacobsi Gozmány, 1967
 * Monopis laevigella – skin moth
 * Monopis longella
 * Monopis marginistrigella (Chambers, 1873) (= M. irrorella)
 * Monopis megalodelta Meyrick, 1908
 * Monopis meliorella (Walker, 1863)
 * Monopis monacha Zagulajev, 1972
 * Monopis monachella
 * Monopis mycetophilella Powell, 1967
 * Monopis nigricantella (Millière, 1872)
 * Monopis obviella
 * Monopis ochroptila Turner, 1923
 * Monopis ornithias (Meyrick, 1888)
 * Monopis pallidella Zagulajev, 1955
 * Monopis pavlovskii Zagulajev, 1955
 * Monopis pentadisca Meyrick, 1924
 * Monopis spilotella (Tengström, 1848) (= M. biflavimaculella, M. halospila, M. insignisella)
 * Monopis stichomela (Lower, 1900)
 * Monopis straminella Zagulajev, 1958
 * Monopis trigonoleuca Turner, 1917
 * Monopis weaverella (Scott, 1858)

M. christophi is either a junior synonym of M. pallidella or the senior synonym of M. straminella. Also placed here by some authors is Reisserita barbarosi.

Synonyms
Junior synonyms of Monopis are:
 * Blabophanes Zeller, 1852
 * Eusynopa Lower, 1903
 * Hyalospila Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
 * Rhitia Walker, 1864