Agonita

Agonita
Agonita fossulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Cassidinae
Tribe:	Gonophorini
Genus:	Agonita Strand, 1942 [1]
Synonyms
AgoniaWeise, 1905 (preocc.) Gonophora (Lachnispa)Gestro, 1897 Gonophora (Sinagonia)Chen et al., 1962

Agonita is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae. ^[2] Species have been recorded from Africa and Asia. ^[3]

Species

• Agonita amoena (Péringuey, 1908)
• Agonita andrewesi (Weise, 1897)
• Agonita andrewesimima (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita angulata (Chen and Tan in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita apicata Chen and Sun in Chen, Sun and Yu, 1964
• Agonita apicipennis (Baly, 1869)
• Agonita attenuata (Gestro, 1917)
• Agonita bakeri (Uhmann, 1931)
• Agonita bangalana (Duvivier, 1890)
• Agonita bicolor (Gestro, 1897)
• Agonita brittoni Uhmann, 1954
• Agonita carbunculus (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita castanea (Tan and Sun in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita cherapunjiensis (Maulik, 1916)
• Agonita chinensis (Weise, 1922)
• Agonita chlorina (Maulik, 1928)
• Agonita clavareaui (Gestro, 1899)
• Agonita coomani (Pic, 1924)
• Agonita cribricollis (Gestro, 1900)
• Agonita dangali Medvedev, 2009
• Agonita darjeelingensis Basu, 1999
• Agonita decemmaculata (Kraatz, 1900)
• Agonita decorata (Gestro, 1897)
• Agonita discrepans Uhmann, 1954
• Agonita drescheri Uhmann, 1960
• Agonita dulitana (Uhmann, 1938)
• Agonita fallax (Gestro, 1911)
• Agonita femoralis (Weise, 1905)
• Agonita fossulata (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
• Agonita foveicollis (Chen and Tan in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita fuscipes (Baly, 1858)
• Agonita himalayensis (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita immaculata (Gestro, 1888)
• Agonita incerta (Gestro, 1896)
• Agonita indenticulata (Pic, 1924)
• Agonita insignis (Baly, 1858)
• Agonita insularis (Gestro, 1896)
• Agonita interrupta (Duvivier, 1891)
• Agonita jacobsoni (Uhmann, 1928)
• Agonita javanica (Gestro, 1900)
• Agonita kerintjica (Uhmann, 1928)
• Agonita klapperichi Uhmann, 1954
• Agonita kunminensis (Tan and Sun in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita kuntzeni (Uhmann, 1932)
• Agonita laeta Medvedev and Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999
• Agonita laevicollis (Gestro, 1917)
• Agonita laticeps (Gressitt, 1939)
• Agonita limbata (Pic, 1927)
• Agonita lineaticollis (Pic, 1941)
• Agonita lohita Basu, 1999
• Agonita lucida (Gestro, 1897)
• Agonita luzonica (Weise, 1922)
• Agonita macrophthalma (Gestro, 1922)
• Agonita maculigera (Gestro, 1888)
• Agonita malangensis (Weise, 1922)
• Agonita mauliki (Gestro, 1920)
• Agonita metasternalis (Tan and Sun in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita methneri (Uhmann, 1928)
• Agonita mira (Gestro, 1917)
• Agonita modiglianii (Gestro, 1892)
• Agonita nana (Gestro, 1917)
• Agonita nanpinensis Chen and Sun in Chen, Sun and Yu, 1964
• Agonita nepalica Medvedev, 2003
• Agonita nigra (Tan and Sun in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita nigriceps (Baly, 1869)
• Agonita nigricornis (Gestro, 1911)
• Agonita nigrovittata (Gestro, 1897)
• Agonita nilava (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita nitida (Gestro, 1906)
• Agonita omeia Chen and Sun in Chen, Sun and Yu, 1964
• Agonita omoro Takizawa, 1975
• Agonita pallidipennis (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita pallipes (Spaeth, 1933)
• Agonita parallela Uhmann, 1961
• Agonita parvula (Gestro, 1890)
• Agonita picea Gressitt, 1953
• Agonita pictipes Chen and Sun in Chen, Sun and Yu, 1964
• Agonita pilipes (Chen and Sun in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita pitava Basu, 1999
• Agonita purpurascens (Gressitt, 1939)
• Agonita quadripunctata (Guérin-Méneville in Cuvier, 1844)
• Agonita regularis Uhmann, 1967
• Agonita ruficollis Chen and Sun in Chen, Sun and Yu, 1964
• Agonita saundersi (Baly, 1858)
• Agonita sculpturata (Gressitt, 1953)
• Agonita semibrunnea (Pic, 1940)
• Agonita seminigra (Tan and Sun in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita shailaja (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita shelfordi (Gestro, 1903)
• Agonita spaethi (Uhmann, 1928)
• Agonita spathoglottis (Uhmann, 1929)
• Agonita suturella (Baly, 1858)
• Agonita suturellamima (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita tabangae Uhmann, 1960
• Agonita tavoya (Maulik, 1919)
• Agonita tayabasensis (Uhmann, 1931)
• Agonita testaceicornis (Pic, 1942)
• Agonita thailandica Staines, 2010
• Agonita tricolor (Chûjô, 1933)
• Agonita tricostata Yu and Huang, 2002
• Agonita tristicula (Weise, 1922)
• Agonita tristis (Chen and Sun in Chen, Tan, Yu and Sun, 1962)
• Agonita umtalica (Uhmann, 1930)
• Agonita undata (Uhmann, 1929)
• Agonita unicolor (Chûjô, 1933)
• Agonita variegata (Gestro, 1907)
• Agonita vicina (Uhmann, 1935)
• Agonita wallacei (Baly, 1858)
• Agonita weberi (Weise, 1911)
• Agonita xanthosticta (Gestro, 1897)

References

1. Integrated Taxonomic Information System
2. Staines, C.L. (2012). "Hispines of the World: Tribe Gonophorini" (PDF). USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
3. GBIF: Agonita Strand, 1942 (retrieved 26 September 2025)

External links

• Media related to Agonita at Wikimedia Commons