Agnoea Explained

Agnoea is a genus of butterflies in the moth family Lypusidae. There are more than 20 described species in Agnoea.

Taxonomy

Recent research has shown that the genus Pseudatemelia is one of those close to Lypusa, the type of the family Lypusidae.^[1] As a result, the genus Pseudatemelia has been dissolved and the species previously assigned to it transferred to the genus Agnoea.^[2] ^[3]

Distribution

These moths are present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Agnoea:

Subgenus Agnoea (Agnoea) Rebel, 1910
- Agnoea aeneella (Rebel, 1910)
- Agnoea amparoella (Vives, 1986)
- Agnoea colurnella (Mann, 1867)
- Agnoea danguni Sohn & Lvovsky, 2021
- Agnoea detrimentella (Staudinger, 1859)
- Agnoea emarella Gastón & Vives, 2020
- Agnoea filiella (Staudinger, 1859)
- Agnoea flavifrontella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (Yellow-headed Tubic)
- Agnoea fuscifrontella (Constant, 1884)
- Agnoea kurentzovi (Lvovsky, 2001)
- Agnoea latipennella (Jäckh, 1959)
- Agnoea lavandulae (Mann, 1855)
- Agnoea lvovskyi Gastón & Vives, 2020
- Agnoea nonscriptella Corley, 2014
- Agnoea pallidella (Jäckh, 1972)
- Agnoea semifuscata (Walsingham, 1911)
- Agnoea subfiliella Lvovsky, 2018
- Agnoea subgilvida (Walsingham, 1901)
- Agnoea subochreella (Doubleday, 1859) (Straw-coloured Tubic)
- Agnoea synchrozella (Jäckh, 1959)
- Agnoea xanthosoma (Rebel, 1900)
Subgenus Agnoea (Tubuliferodes) Strand, 1917
- Agnoea digitiella Kim & Lee, 2020
- Agnoea elsae (Svensson, 1982)
- Agnoea josephinae (Toll, 1956) (Orange-headed Tubic)
- Agnoea langohri (Palm, 1990)

Notes and References

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00483.x/abstract Reassessment of the enigmatic Lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea)
https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0021166481 National Biodiversity Network (NBN) atlas
https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Agnoea_subochreella Lepiforum