Agonoxenidae

Taxobox
name = Agonoxenidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Ditrysia
superfamilia = Gelechioidea
familia = Agonoxenidae
familia_authority = Meyrick, 1926
type_species = "Agonoxena argaula"
diversity = 1 genus, 4 species
diversity_link = Lepidopteran diversity
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Agonoxena"
(see text)

The Agonoxenidae family of moths only contains four named species in the whole world (if, following Nielsen "et al" (1996) the "Blastodacnidae" are considered to be a separate family) :

*"Agonoxena argaula" (Coconut Leafminer) is a pest on Coconut Palm ("Cocos nucifera") in Fiji and Hawaii.
*"Agonoxena pyrogramma" is also a pest on Coconut Palm, in Indonesia.
*"Agonoxena miniana" is a pest on Betel Nuts ("Areca catechu") in Indonesia.
*"Agonoxena phoenicea" (Palm Moth) occurs in Australia.

Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) retained the "Blastodacnidae" in the same taxon as the "Agonoxenidae" giving a grouping of some 31 genera, but treated the whole as a subfamily of the "Elachistidae".

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.