AGONOXENINAE of Australia
 Palm Moths
GELECHIOIDEA
  
  
AGONOXENINAE

moths
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Some taxonomists think that AGONOXENINAE is a subfamily of BLASTODACNIDAE, and some that BLASTODACNINAE is a subfamily of AGONOXENIDAE, but here following the Australian Faunal Directory, we treat them together as a subfamily of ELACHISTIDAE.

This expanded AGONOXENINAE has 23 named species in Australia :

Agonoxena phoenicia : Palm Moth

  • Chrysoclista monotyla

  • Lithocolletis agrapha

  • Microcolona arizela
  • Microcolona celaenospila
    Microcolona characta
  • Microcolona crypsicasis
  • Microcolona embolopis
  • Microcolona epixutha
  • Microcolona leptopis
  • Microcolona leucochtha
  • Microcolona nodata
  • Microcolona polygethes
  • Microcolona ponophora
  • Microcolona sollennis
  • Microcolona spaniospila
  • Microcolona thymopis
  • Microcolona trigonospila
  • Microcolona toropis
  • Microcolona trigonospila

    Zaratha crotolitha
    Zaratha trisecta

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    (updated 31 May 2014, 1 September 2025)