''Blastodacna'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s of the family
Elachistidae
The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lumpers and splitters, lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly result ...
.
Distribution
''Blastodacna '' species are found in the
Holarctic
The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...
, although most species are native to the
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
.
Taxonomy
The genus is mostly placed in the family
Elachistidae
The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lumpers and splitters, lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly result ...
, but other authors list it as a member of the family
Agonoxenidae
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 (e.g. following Nielsen ''et al.'', 1996). Such a monotypic ar ...
or even assign it its own family, the
Blastodacnidae
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 (e.g. following Nielsen ''et al.'', 1996). Such a monotypic ar ...
.
Species
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Blastodacna atra''
(Haworth, 1828)
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Blastodacna bicristatella''
(Chambers, 1875)
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Blastodacna curvilineella''
(Chambers, 1872)
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Blastodacna erebopis''
Meyrick, 1934
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Blastodacna georgiella''
Sinev, 1988
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Blastodacna hellerella''
(Duponchel, 1838)
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Blastodacna libanotica''
Diakonoff, 1939
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Blastodacna lvovskyi''
Sinev, 1986
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Blastodacna mandshurica''
Sinev, 1988
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Blastodacna mironovi''
Sinev, 1989
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Blastodacna ochrella''
Sugisima, 2004
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Blastodacna pyrigalla''
(Yang, 1977)
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Blastodacna rossica''
Sinev, 1989
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Blastodacna vinolentella''
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
Former species
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Blastodacna cinnamomina''
Turati, 1930
References
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Parametriotinae
Moth genera
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