Genus Tineobius Ashmead, 1896

Diagnosis

Females can be recognized by the following combination of characters: vast majority of species with a conspicuously lengthened maxillary palpus with apical palpal segment elongate, distinctly curved or with inner margin angulate basally, prepectus with light-coloured and large frontal surface, propodeum with transverse plical depression and either with membranous white spot or line within depression (nominal subgenus and Duanellus) or with whitish membranous bottom (in T. ( Progenitobius) Gibson, 1995), mesotibia without oblique apical groove, gaster with deeply emarginate syntergum and very long and flamentous ovipositor sheaths (Gibson 1995). Excluding some T. ( Progenitobius), metatibia conspicuously compressed with laminate dorsal margin and white along lamina or at least dorsobasally, with the exception of some T. ( Duanellus).