Agonoxeninae
The Agonoxeninae are a subfamily of moths.
History of classification
Formerly, the subfamily only contained four named species - all in the type genus Agonoxena - if. Such a monotypic arrangement is fairly unusual in modern taxonomy without explicit need due to phylogenetic constraints.Hodges retained the Blastodacnidae in the Agonoxenidae, giving a grouping of some 31 genera, and treating the whole as a subfamily Agonoxeninae of the grass-miner moths. Collectively, the Agonoxenidae and "Blastodacnidae" are known as palm moths.
Genera
- Agonoxena Meyrick, 1921
- Asymphorodes
- Cladobrostis
- Diacholotis
- Gnamptonoma Meyrick, 1917
- Helcanthica
- Ischnopsis
- Nanodacna
- Nicanthes
- Pammeces Zeller, 1863
- Pauroptila
- Porotica
- ''Proterocosma''
Former genera
Blastodacna, Dystebenna, Haplochrois, Heinemannia and Spuleria are sometimes placed here, sometimes in the Elachistidae.Other genera formerly placed here: