Agnoea is a genus of butterflies in the moth family Lypusidae. There are more than 20 described species in Agnoea.[1][2][3]

Agnoea
Agnoea flavifrontella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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

Taxonomy

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Recent research has shown that the genus Pseudatemelia is one of those close to Lypusa, the type of the family Lypusidae.[4] As a result, the genus Pseudatemelia has been dissolved and the species previously assigned to it transferred to the genus Agnoea.[5][6][3][1][2]

Distribution

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These moths are present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.[1]

Species

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These 25 species belong to the genus Agnoea:[2][1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Agnoea". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  2. ^ a b c "Agnoea Walsingham, 1907". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  3. ^ a b 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)
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