Agnoea

Agnoea
Agnoea flavifrontella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lypusidae
Subfamily: Lypusinae
Genus: Agnoea
Walsingham, 1907
Subgenera
  • Agnoea Walsingham, 1907
  • Tubuliferodes Toll, 1956
Synonyms
  • Pseudatemelia Rebel, 1910
  • Tubulifera Spuler, 1910
  • Tubuliferodes Toll, 1956
  • Tubuliferola Strand, 1917

Agnoea is a genus of butterflies in the moth family Lypusidae. There are more than 20 described species in Agnoea.

Taxonomy

Recent research has shown that the genus Pseudatemelia is one of those close to Lypusa, the type of the family Lypusidae. As a result, the genus Pseudatemelia has been dissolved and the species previously assigned to it transferred to the genus Agnoea.

Distribution

These moths are present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Agnoea:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Agnoea". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  2. 1 2 3 "Agnoea Walsingham, 1907". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  3. 1 2 Sinev, S. Yu.; Lvovsky, A. L. (2014). "Taxonomical status and species composition of the little known genus Agnoea Walsingham, 1907 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Lypusidae)". Zoosystematica Rossica. 23 (1). doi:10.31610/zsr/2014.23.1.137.
  4. ↑ Reassessment of the enigmatic Lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea)
  5. ↑ National Biodiversity Network (NBN) atlas
  6. ↑ Lepiforum (in German)