Agnathosia

Agnathosia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[2]

Agnathosia
Agnathosia mendicella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Meessiinae
Genus:	Agnathosia Amsel, 1954[1]
Type species
Tinea propulsatella Rebel, 1892

Species: Some species of this genus are:

• Agnathosia byrsinopa (Meyrick, 1933) (from Sierra Leone and Sénégal)[3]
• Agnothosia propulsatella Rebel, 1892
• Agnathosia mendicella Hübner, 1796) (from Europa/Russia)
• Agnathosia obisaggitalis Xiao & Li, 2011 (from China)[4]
• Agnathosia sandoensis Jonasson, 1977 (from Sweden)

References

• Amsel, 1954. Neue oder bemerkenswerte Kleinschmetterlinge aus Österreich, Italien, Sardinien und Corsica. - Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 39: 5-17.

1. Gozmány L. A. & Vári L. 1973. The Tineidae of the Ethiopian Region. - Transvaal Museum Memoir 18:i–vi, 1–238.
2. Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae
3. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2016. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (acc.25-Feb-2017)
4. Xiao, Y. L.; Li, H. H., 2011. A new species of Agnathosia Amsel, 1954 from China (Lepidoptera: Tineidae, Meessiinae). - SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología, vol. 39, núm. 156, pp. 415-418