| COMMENTS | Type species: Tinea upupaepennella Hübner. 1796. Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge 8: 68; pl. 30, fig. 203. By subsequent designation by Curtis, 1833. British Entomology 10: folio 479, p. 2. Ornix was a Treitschke manuscript name, obtained from a copy of Treitschke's unpublished manuscript (see Kollar 1832: 2), and made nomenclaturally available by Kollar before the genus was proposed and described by Treitschke 1833, Schmetterlinge von Europa 9(2): 194. Ornix Kollar, 1832 is a junior objective synonym of Caloptilia Hübner, 1825 (Nye & Fletcher 1991: 212). |
