BLASTODACNINI of Australia
 Detritus Moths
AGONOXENINAE,   ELACHISTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

  
BLASTODACNINI

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

Some taxonomists think that BLASTODACNINAE is a subfamily of AGONOXENIDAE, and some think that AGONOXENINAE is a subfamily of BLASTODACNIDAE, but here following the Australian Faunal Directory, we relegate it to a Tribe of subfamily AGONOXENINAE in the family ELACHISTIDAE.

The 19 named Australian species that were in BLASTODACNIDAE are:

  • 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 15 June 2014, 21 June 2025)