Agonopterix

Agonopterix
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Family: Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily: Depressariinae (disputed)
Genus: Agonopterix
Hübner, 1825
Type species
"Tinea signella"
Hübner, 1796
Synonyms
  • Epeleustia Hübner, 1825
  • Pinaris Hübner, 1825
  • Tichonia Hübner, 1825
  • Haemylis Treitschke, 1832
  • Syllochitis Meyrick, 1910
  • Ctenioxena Meyrick, 1923
  • Agonopteryx

Agonopterix is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is placed in the subfamily Depressariinae, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a distinct family Depressariidae or included in the Elachistidae, but actually seems to belong in the Oecophoridae.[1]

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Selected species

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003)

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