Agonoxenides ( lat. Agonoxenidae ) - a small family of Lepidoptera . Some species can cause significant damage to fruit trees and ornamental shrubs.
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 Chrysoclista linneella | ||||||||||||||
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| Agonoxenidae Meyrick , 1926 |
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Description
Small butterflies with a wingspan of 8-20 mm, usually variegated. The antennae are long, filiform, slightly shorter than the front wings. Some species have three pairs of developed bundles of scales on the wings. The front wings are elongated. Caterpillars develop under the bark, in the buds and fruits of shrubs and trees.
Systematics
The taxonomy of the family remains debatable. According to one of them, this family includes only 4 species in the only genus Agonoxena . According to another, this family also includes about 126 species in the genera Chrysoclista , Microcolona and Zaratha , distinguished by supporters of the first version of the classification in a separate family Blastodacnidae .
Range
The range of representatives of the genus includes Australia , Indonesia and Oceania . Species belonging to the sometimes isolated family Blastodacnidae also inhabit the Palearctic .
Views
- Genus Agonoxena
- Agonoxena argaula
- Agonoxena pyrogramma
- Agonoxena miniana
- Agonoxena phoenicea
Blastodacnidae
- Aetia genus - 2 species
- Genus Blastodacna - 11 species
- Genus Chrysoclista - 18 species
- Genus Cladobrostis
- Genus Diacholotis
- Genus Dystebenna
- Genus Glaucacna
- Genus Heinemannia
- Genus Helcanthica
- Genus Microcolona - 31 species
- Genus Nanodacna
- Genus Nicanthes
- Genus Palaeomystella
- Genus Pammeces
- Genus Panclintis
- Genus Parametriotes
- Genus Platybathra
- Prochola genus - 22 species
- Genus Spuleria
- Genus Syntetrernis
- Genus Tetanocentria
- Genus Zaratha
Literature
- Nielsen ES, Edwards ED & Rangsi TV (eds.) ( 1996 ), Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia; Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 4; CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 1996.
- Kristensen, NP (ed.), 1999 . Handbook of Zoology: Bd. 4. Arthropoda: Insecta. Teilbd. 35, Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies. Vol. 1. Evolution, systematics, and biogeography. W.de Gruyter, Berlin.