Agonoxeninae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Superfamilia: Gelechioidea

Familia: Elachistidae
Subfamilia: Agonoxeninae
Synonyms (2): Agonoxenidae, Blastodacnidae
Genera (39): Aeronectris – Aetia – Agonoxena - Ambonostola - Aphthonetus - Asymphorodes - Balionebris - Blastodacna – Chaetocampa – Chrysoclista – Cladobrostis – Diacholotis – Dystebenna – Glaucacna – Glaucagna – Glyphipterix – Haemolytis – Haplochrois – Heinemannia – Helcanthica – Homoeoprepes – Microcolona – Nanodacna – Nicanthes – Pammeces – Panclintis – Parametriotes – Platybathra – Prochola – Proterocosma – Psammeces – Sinitinea – Spuleria – Syntetrernis – Tebenna – Tetanocentria – Tocasta – Zaratha

Check: Circoxena

Name
Agonoxeninae Meyrick, 1926

The Agonoxeninae are a subfamily of moths.

History of classification

Formerly, the subfamily only contained four named species – all in the type genus Agonoxena – if (e.g. following Nielsen et al., 1996). Such a monotypic arrangement is fairly unusual in modern taxonomy without explicit need due to phylogenetic constraints.

Hodges (in Kristensen, 1999) retained the Blastodacnidae in the Agonoxenidae, giving a grouping of some 31 genera, and treating the whole as a subfamily Agonoxeninae of the grass-miner moths (Elachistidae). Collectively, the Agonoxenidae and "Blastodacnidae" are known as palm moths.
Genera

Agonoxena Meyrick, 1921
Asymphorodes (formerly in Cosmopterigidae)
Cladobrostis
Diacholotis
Gnamptonoma
Helcanthica
Ischnopsis
Nanodacna
Nicanthes
Pammeces Zeller, 1863 (formerly in Cosmopterigidae)
Pauroptila
Porotica
Proterocosma (formerly in Cosmopterigidae)

Former genera

Blastodacna, Dystebenna, Haplochrois, Heinemannia and Spuleria are sometimes placed here, sometimes in the Elachistidae (or Blastodacnidae).

Other genera formerly placed here:

Chrysoclista
Colonophora
Glaucacna
Palaeomystella
Panclintis
Prochola
Tocasta Busck, 1912
Zaratha

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.