''Agrotera'' is a

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 snout moths in the subfamily

Spilomelinae Spilomelinae is a very species-rich subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. With 4,135 described species in 344 genera worldwide, it is the most speciose group among pyraloids. Description Imagines – the adu ...

of the

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

Crambidae The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...

. It is the type genus of the

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Agroterini Agroterini is a tribe of the species-rich subfamily Spilomelinae in the pyraloid moth family Crambidae. The tribe was erected by Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque in 1897. Genera Agroterini currently contains 30 genera, altogether comprising 43 ...

and currently comprises 28 species distributed in the

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...

Indomalayan The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

and

Australasian realm The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea an ...

. The

caterpillar Caterpillars ( ) are the larva, larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterfly, butterflies and moths). As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawfly ...

s of ''Agrotera'' species feed on a variety of plants in the families

Anacardiaceae The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species. Members of the Anacardiaceae bear fruits that are drupes and in some cases produce ...

Betulaceae Betulaceae, the birch family, includes six genera of deciduous nut-bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams, hazel-hornbeam, and hop-hornbeams numbering a total of 167 species. They are mostly natives of ...

, Dipterocarpaceae,

Fagaceae The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as eve ...

Lythraceae Lythraceae is a family of flowering plants, including 32 genera, with about 620 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. The larger genera include '' Cuphea'' (275 spp.), '' Lagerstroemia'' (56), '' Nesaea'' (50), '' Rotala'' (45), and '' Lythru ...

Melastomataceae Melastomataceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics (two-thirds of the genera are from the New World tropics) comprising c. 175 genera and c. 5115 known species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, s ...

Myrtaceae Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava, acca (feijoa), allspice, and eucalyptus are some notable members of this group. All spe ...

and

Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules ...

. The genera ''

Leucinodella Agroterini is a tribe of the species-rich subfamily Spilomelinae in the pyraloid moth family Crambidae. The tribe was erected by Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque in 1897. Genera Agroterini currently contains 30 genera, altogether comprising ...

'', ''

Nistra ''Nistra '' is a genus of snout moths in the family Crambidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species ''Nistra coelatalis'', which was formerly included in the genus ''Agrotera''. ''Nistra coelatalis'' was described by Francis ...

'', '' Sagariphora'' and ''

Tetracona ''Tetracona'' is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Edward Meyrick in 1884 with ''Aediodes amathealis'' Walker, 1859 as type species. The genus was long treated as a sy ...

'' have been treated as synonyms of ''Agrotera'' in the past, but a recent

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found them to be valid genera.

Species

*''

Agrotera aculeata Agrotera ( Gr. , "the huntress") was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, the most important goddess to Attic hunters. At Agrae on the Ilissos, where she was believed to have first hunted after her arrival from Delos, Artemis Agrotera had a ...

'' Liu, Qi & Wang, 2020, from

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slight ...

*''

Agrotera albalis ''Agrotera albalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was first found on the island of Príncipe, between 450 and 600 m elevation, by Thomas Alexander Barns Thomas Alexander Barns Zoological Society of London, FZS Royal Entomologic ...

'' Maes, 2003, from

Príncipe Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of (including offshore islets) and a population of 7,324 at the 2012 Census;

*'' Agrotera atalis'' Viette, 1958, from

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

*'' Agrotera barcealis'' (Walker, 1859) (syn. ''Leucinodes opalina'' Moore, 1885; syn. ''Zanclopteryx nitida'' Walker, 1866; syn. ''Zebronia indecisalis'' Walker, 1866; syn. ''Zebronia retractalis'' Walker, 1866), from

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java Isl ...

and West Papua *'' Agrotera basinotata'' Hampson, 1891, from

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil languag ...

*'' Agrotera citrina'' Hampson, 1899, from

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

*'' Agrotera dentata'' Liu, Qi & Wang, 2020, from Hainan *'' Agrotera discinotata'' Swinhoe, 1894, from

Meghalaya Meghalaya (, or , meaning "abode of clouds"; from Sanskrit , "cloud" + , "abode") is a state in northeastern India. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of Assam: (a) the United Khasi Hills and Jai ...

*'' Agrotera effertalis'' (Walker, 1859), from Sri Lanka *'' Agrotera endoxantha'' Hampson, 1899, from

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

*'' Agrotera flavobasalis'' Inoue, 1996, from

Bonin Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

*'' Agrotera fumosa'' Hampson, 1899, from Ghana *'' Agrotera genuflexa'' Chen, Horak, Du & Zhang, 2017, from

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

*'' Agrotera glycyphanes'' Turner, 1913, from

Northern Australia The unofficial geographic term Northern Australia includes those parts of Queensland and Western Australia north of latitude 26° and all of the Northern Territory. Those local government areas of Western Australia and Queensland that lie p ...

*'' Agrotera ignepicta'' Hampson, 1899, from Queensland *'' Agrotera ignepictoides'' Rothschild, 1916, from

Papua Papua most commonly refers to: * New Guinea, the world's second-largest island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean * Western New Guinea, the western half of the island of New Guinea, which is administered by Indonesia. ** Papua (province), an Indonesi ...

*'' Agrotera lienpingialis'' Caradja, 1925, from China *'' Agrotera longitabulata'' Chen, Horak, Du & Zhang, 2017, from Queensland *'' Agrotera mysolalis'' (Walker, 1866), from West Papua *'' Agrotera namorokalis'' Marion & Viette, 1956, from Madagascar *'' Agrotera nemoralis'' (Scopoli, 1763) (syn. ''Agrotera posticalis'' Wileman, 1911; syn. ''Phalaena erosalis'' Fabricius, 1794), from

Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelag ...

*'' Agrotera ornata'' Wileman & South, 1917, from

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

*'' Agrotera protensa'' Liu, Qi & Wang, 2020, from Hainan *'' Agrotera robustispina'' Lu, Qi & Wang, 2020, from Hainan *'' Agrotera rufitinctalis'' Hampson, 1917, from

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northe ...

*'' Agrotera scissalis'' (Walker, 1866), from

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...

*'' Agrotera semipictalis'' Kenrick, 1907, from

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

*'' Agrotera setipes'' Hampson, 1899, from the

Natuna Islands ''(Sacred Ocean, Fortune Land) , image_map = , pushpin_map = Indonesia Riau Islands#Indonesia Sumatra#Indonesia#South China Sea , pushpin_map_caption = Location in Riau Islands##Location in Sumatra##Location in ...

Former species

*'' Agrotera amathealis'' (Walker, 1859) (syn. ''Pyralis ornatalis'' Walker, 1866),

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

of the genus ''

'' Meyrick, 1884 *'' Agrotera coelatalis'' (Walker, 1859) (syn. ''Botys proximalis'' Walker, 1866),

of the genus ''

'' Walker, 1859 *'' Agrotera leucostola'' Hampson, 1896 (syn. ''Leucinodella agroterodes'' Strand, 1918), now in the genus ''

'' Walker, 1859 *'' Agrotera magnificalis'' Hampson, 1893 (syn. ''Cataclysta helopalis'' Clemens, 1860; syn. ''Sagariphora heliochlaena'' Meyrick, 1894), now in the genus '' Sagariphora'' Meyrick, 1894 *'' Agrotera pictalis'' (Warren, 1896), now in the genus ''Tetracona'' Meyrick, 1884

References

Spilomelinae Crambidae genera Taxa named by Franz von Paula Schrank {{Agroterini-stub