Agrotera (moth)

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Agrotera
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A live individual of Agrotera nemoralis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Tribe: Agroterini
Genus: Agrotera
Schrank, 1802 [1]
Synonyms
  • AgropteraHampson, 1899

Agrotera is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. It is the type genus of the tribe Agroterini and currently comprises 28 species distributed in the Afrotropical, Palearctic, Indomalayan and Australasian realm. [2] [1]

Contents

The caterpillars of Agrotera species feed on a variety of plants in the families Anacardiaceae, Betulaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Fagaceae, Lythraceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae and Rubiaceae. [3]

The genera Leucinodella , Nistra , Sagariphora and Tetracona have been treated as synonyms of Agrotera in the past, but a recent taxonomic revision found them to be valid genera. [4]

Species

Former species

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<i>Tetracona</i> Genus of moths

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References

  1. 1 2 Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2020). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". www.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  2. ↑ Mally, Richard; Hayden, James E.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Nuss, Matthias (2019). "The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN   1863-7221.
  3. ↑ Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, P. R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, G. W.; Hernández, L. M. (2010). "Agrotera". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. London: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chen, Kai; Horak, Marianne; Du, Xicui; Zhang, Dandan (2017). "Revision of the Australian species of Agrotera Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)". Zootaxa. 4362 (2): 213–224. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.2.2 . PMID   29245425.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Liu, Ping; Qi, Mujie; Wang, Shuxia (2020). "Four new species of the genus Agrotera Schrank, 1802 (Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae) from Hainan Island". Zootaxa. 4731 (4): 556–564. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.8. PMID   32230287.


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