Agnoea subochreella

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Agnoea subochreella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lypusidae
Subfamily: Lypusinae
Genus: Agnoea
Species:
A. subochreella
Binomial name
Agnoea subochreella
(Doubleday, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Pseudatemelia subochreella (Doubleday, 1859)
  • Borkhausenia subochreella (Doubleday, 1859)
  • Tubuliferola subochreella (Doubleday, 1859)
  • Oecophora subochreella Doubleday, 1859

Agnoea subochreella, the Straw-coloured Tubic, is a species of gelechioid moth in the family Lypusidae. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

This species was formerly in the genus Pseudatemelia.

Taxonomy

Here, this species is placed within the subfamily Lypusinae of the moth family Lypusidae. [4] [1]

Recent research has shown that the genus Pseudatemelia is one of those close to Lypusa , the type of the family Lypusidae. [5] The genus Pseudatemelia has been dissolved, and the species previously assigned to it transferred to the genus Agnoea. Consequently, Pseudatemelia subochreella has been assigned to the genus Agnoea, Lypusidae family, Gelechioidea superfamily. [6] [7] [3] [1] [2]

Distribution and habitat

This species is present in Europe, where it inhabits woodlands. At the periphery of its European range, it is not common; in the UK for example it is only found locally in southern England. It can also be found in the Near East and in North Africa. [1]

Description

Agnoea subochreella has a wingspan of about 17–20 mm. [8] This moth is not conspicuously colored, even by the standards of its rather drab genus, being a ruddy ochraceous brown overall (hence the name subochreella), or more yellow-grey with darker hindwings. All wings are unmarked. [9] [7]

Biology

The adults fly from May to July depending on the location; they are mainly nocturnal but are sometimes encountered flying around during the day. Its caterpillars live inside a self-made case built from a folded piece of leaf, that is often attached to tree trunks or stones. [8] They eat dead and decaying leaves and similar plant remains, and probably also rotting wood. [9] [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Agnoea subochreella". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  2. 1 2 "Agnoea subochreella (Doubleday, 1935)". 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. Funet - Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  5. Reassessment of the enigmatic Lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea)
  6. National Biodiversity Network (NBN) atlas
  7. 1 2 Lepiforum (in German)
  8. 1 2 Naturhistoriska risksmuseet (in Swedish)
  9. 1 2 UKMoths
  10. Grabe, Albert (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"] Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins 27: 105-109 [in German]. PDF fulltext