''Adenopteryx'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

moth

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of the family

Pyralidae The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyra ...

. It contains only one species, ''Adenopteryx conchyliatalis'', which is found in

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."''Adenopteryx'' Ragonot, 1891"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

References

Chrysauginae Monotypic moth genera Endemic fauna of Algeria Moths of Africa Pyralidae genera Taxa named by Émile Louis Ragonot {{Chrysauginae-stub