''Nagiella'' is a

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s of the family

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. It was established by

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in 1964 as a

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for ''Nagia'' Walker, 1866, a name that was preoccupied by '' Nagia'' Walker, 1858 in the

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family

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Distribution

The six species of ''Nagiella'' are distributed in

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and

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as well as the

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Larval foodplants

The

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s of '' Nagiella inferior'' have been recorded on ''

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'' in the

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family.

Species

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

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. ''Nagiella'' is placed in 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 433 ...

of the

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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 pyraloidea, pyraloids. Description Imagines ...

. The

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, ''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.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Spilomelinae Crambidae genera Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe {{Spilomelinae-stub