Biology:Agrotera (moth)

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Agrotera
Crambidae - Agrotera nemoralis.JPG
A live individual of Agrotera nemoralis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Tribe: Agroterini
Genus: Agrotera
Schrank, 1802[1]
Synonyms
  • Agroptera Hampson, 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]

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas et al. (2003–2020). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)" (in en). http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fPages%2fReports%2fTaxonomyReport.aspx%3fAspxAutoDetectCookieSupport%3d1&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1. 
  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". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN 1863-7221. https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/07_asp_77-1_mally_141-204.pdf. 
  3. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, P. R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, G. W.; Hernández, L. M. (2010). "Agrotera". Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/index.dsml. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 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. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/download/zootaxa.4362.2.2/30636. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4694301 entry