- Agonoxenidae
Taxobox
name = Agonoxenidae
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
subordo =Ditrysia
superfamilia =Gelechioidea
familia = Agonoxenidae
familia_authority = Meyrick, 1926
type_species = "Agonoxena argaula"
diversity = 1 genus, 4 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Agonoxena"
(see text)The Agonoxenidae family of
moth s only contains four named species in the whole world (if, following Nielsen "et al" (1996) the "Blastodacnidae" are considered to be a separate family) :*"
Agonoxena argaula " (Coconut Leafminer) is a pest onCoconut Palm ("Cocos nucifera") inFiji andHawaii .
*"Agonoxena pyrogramma " is also a pest on Coconut Palm, inIndonesia .
*"Agonoxena miniana " is a pest onBetel Nut s ("Areca catechu") in Indonesia.
*"Agonoxena phoenicea " (Palm Moth) occurs inAustralia .Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) retained the "Blastodacnidae" in the same taxon as the "Agonoxenidae" giving a grouping of some 31 genera, but treated the whole as a subfamily of the "
Elachistidae ".References
*Nielsen E.S., Edwards E.D. & Rangsi T.V. (eds.) (1996), Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia; Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 4; CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 1996
*Kristensen, N.P. (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.
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