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Roeslerstammia Zeller, 1839 was transferred from the Yponomeutidae to the Amphitheridae Meyrick, 1913, by Kyrki, 1983, Entomologica Scandinavica 14 (3) : 322. However, Amphitheridae Meyrick, 1913 is a SYN-NOV of Roeslerstammiidae Bruand, 1850 (Kyrki, 1983, Entomologica Scandinavica 14 (3) : 322) thus it remains in the Roeslerstammiidae.
Roeslerstammia Zeller, 1839 was treated as a valid genus and brought out of synonymy by Gaedike, 1989, Nota Lepidopterologica 11 (4) : 254.
Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:-
Zeller originally included five species in his new genus Roeslerstammia, four species in section A and one species in Section B. Section B was a new subgenus named Chrysitella Zeller containing only the species erxlebella Fabricius. Under the Code (Edns 2 & 3), Article 69(a), any of the five nominal species originally included in Roeslerstammia was eligible to be subsequently designated as type-species. Fletcher's designation of erxlebella was valid even though it made Roeslerstammia and Chrysitella into objective synonyms of one another. Kocak, 1980, Communs Fac. Sci. Univ. Ankara (C) 24: 20-23, did not accept erxlebella as the valid type-species and he stated that the type-species is Roeslerstammia assectella Zeller, 1839, by subsequent monotypy under the Code (Edn 2), Article 69(a)(ii)(2), and Edn 3) article 69(a)(i)(1)&(vii). However this Subssection of the Article only applies if there is no riginally included nominal species in the new genus. Kocak, 1981, ibidem (C) 25: 20, in a published reply to a personal letter written to him by Nye, still held to the opinion that the type-species of Roeslerstammia must be designated from one of the four species originally included in the subgenus Roeslerstammia. While this is a very sensible opinion it is not, however, correct under the rules of the Code. Roeslerstammia was included in the Yponomeutidae by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 195; its assignments to other families were reviewed by Kyrki, 1983, Entomologica scand. 14: 321, and the family name Roeslerstammiidae Braund, 1850, was revised.
See also: Chrysitella Zeller, 1839; * Roesslerstammia Heinemann, 1870; * Roeslertammia Braund, 1850; Tachytera Gistl, 1848.
Alucita erxlebella Fabricius, 1787 (Alucitidae) was proposed as the type-species for Roeslerstammia Zeller, 1839 to conserve the name Roeslerstammia Zeller (case 2963), 1997, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 54 (1) : 24. A neotype was also designated for A. erxlebella and a proposal was made to place it on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology.
ROESLERSTAMMIA was included within the family ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE by Davis & Robinson, in Kristensen (1999).
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