Biology:Nagiella

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Short description: Genus of moths

Nagiella
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Nagiella inferior, imago
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Spilomelinae
Tribe: Agroterini
Genus: Nagiella
Synonyms
  • Nagia Walker, 1866

Nagiella is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It was established by Eugene G. Munroe in 1964 as a replacement name for Nagia Walker, 1866, a name that was preoccupied by Nagia Walker, 1858 in the Lepidoptera family Erebidae.

Distribution

The six species of Nagiella are distributed in East and Southeast Asia as well as the Indian subcontinent.[1]

Larval foodplants

The caterpillars of Nagiella inferior have been recorded on Coffea liberica in the Rubiaceae family.[2]

Species

  • Nagiella bispina Lu & Du, 2020[3]
  • Nagiella hortulatoides Munroe, 1976
  • Nagiella inferior (Hampson, 1899) (syn. Botys quadrimaculalis (Motschultsky, 1861))
  • Nagiella occultalis Ullah & Yang in Ullah, Yang, Qiao & Zhang, 2017[4]
  • Nagiella quadrimaculalis (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844) (syn. Nagiella desmialis (Walker, 1866))
  • Nagiella tristalis Matsui & Naka in Matsui, Naka & Jinbo, 2021[5]

Systematics

In the past, the genus was considered a synonym of Pleuroptya, until in 2017 a taxonomic revision showed that Nagiella is not identical with Pleuroptya and was reinstated as a valid genus.[4]

Nagiella is placed in the tribe Agroterini of the subfamily Spilomelinae.[6]

The type species, Nagia desmialis Walker, 1865, is now considered a synonym of Nagiella quadrimaculalis (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844), which was described earlier and therefore has priority over the younger name.[1]

References

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  2. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants". https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants. 
  3. Lu, Xiao-Qiang; Du, Xi-Cui (2020). "Revision of Nagiella Munroe (Lepidoptera, Crambidae), with the description of a new species from China". ZooKeys (964): 143–159. doi:10.3897/zookeys.964.55703. PMID 32939150. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Ullah, Misbah; Yang, Zhaofu; Qiao, Pingping; Zhang, Yalin (2017). "A new cryptic species of Nagiella Munroe from China revealed by DNA barcodes and morphological evidence (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Spilomelinae)". ZooKeys (679): 65–76. doi:10.3897/zookeys.679.11960. PMID 28769709. 
  5. Matsui, Y.; Naka, H.; Jinbo, U. (2021). "DNA barcoding and morphology reveal a new cryptic species of Nagiella (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Spilomelinae) from Japan". ZooKeys (1023): 171–192. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1023.60934. PMID 33776519. 
  6. Mally, Richard; Hayden, James E.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Nuss, Matthias (2019). "The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN 1863-7221. https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/07_asp_77-1_mally_141-204.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q6958827 entry