An overview of the Romanian Meessiidae, Eriocottidae and Tineidae (Lepidoptera, Tineoidea) summarizing the current knowledge in an updated and annotated checklist

An up-to-date reassessment of the Romanian Meessiidae, Eriocottidae and Tineidae fauna is presented. In the Romanian fauna a total of 7 Meessiidae species had been given, but only 6 species, all in Eudarcia Clemens, 1860, are currently accepted. Eudarcia balcanicum (Gaedike, 1988) is recorded in Romania for the first time and a photograph of the adult male is provided for the first time. The presence of E. pagenstecherella (Hübner, 1825) in Romania requires confirmation. The Eriocottidae is represented by only one species. From the total of 83 Tineidae species ever recorded, 76 are currently accepted for the Romanian fauna, 9 of them are the first records: Nemapogon falstriella (Haas, 1881), Matratinea rufulicaput Sziráki & Szőcs, 1990, Tinea basifasciella Ragonot, 1895, Niditinea truncicolella (Tengström, 1848), Monopis jussii Kaila, Mutanen, Huemer, Karsholt & Autto, 2020, M. weaverella (Scott, 1858), M. neglecta Šumpich & Liška, 2011, Pelecystola fraudulentella (Zeller, 1852) and Wegneria panchalcella (Staudinger, 1871). The presence of Nemapogon quercicolella (Zeller, 1852) needs confirmation. Two species, Tenaga nigripunctella (Haworth, 1828) and Monopis christophi Petersen, 1957, are deleted from the checklist in this paper, five others were deleted earlier. Of the three families treated a total of 29 additions and other corrections are provided for the regional distribution of the Romanian fauna. We recommend that the information about the Meessiidae and Tineidae in the latest Romanian checklist (Rákosy & Goia 2021) is replaced by that in this publication