Tetracona

Short description: Genus of moths

Tetracona

Tetracona multispina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Crambidae
Tribe:  | Agroterini
Genus:  | 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.[1]: 307

The genus was long treated as a synonym of Agrotera, but a recent taxonomic revision of Agrotera resulted in the re-instatement of Tetracona.[2]

The genus is placed in the tribe Agroterini based on the structure of the uncus, featuring a broad base and simple chaetae on the uncus head, a well-developed medial process of the gnathos, the rectangular, elongate valvae with parallel costal and ventral margins, and the notably elongate saccus (at least in T. amathealis).[3]

The genus with its three species is known from Australia, New Guinea and China.[4][5]

The caterpillars of Tetracona amathealis are recorded from Eucalyptus tereticornis in the Myrtaceae.[4]

## Species

* Tetracona amathealis (Walker, 1859)
* Tetracona multispina Jie & Li in Jie et al. 2020[5]
* Tetracona pictalis Warren, 1896

## References

1. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1884). "On the classification of the Australian Pyralidina". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884: 61–80, 277–350. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51064#page/91/mode/1up.
2. ↑ Chen, Kai; Horak, Marianne; Du, Xicui; Zhang, Dandan (2017). "Revision of the Australian species of Agrotera Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)". Zootaxa 4362 (2): 213–224. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4362.2.2. PMID 29245425. https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/viewFile/zootaxa.4362.2.2/13156.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Agrotera amathealis (Walker, 1859)". http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/amathealis.html.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jie, Lu-Lan; Yang, Jing-Bo; Li, Wei-Chun (2020). "First record of the genus Tetracona Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) from China, with description of a new species". ZooKeys (941): 101–105. doi:10.3897/zookeys.941.49559. PMID 32595410. PMC 7311512. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/49559/.

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