Adeana

Adeana is a gelechioid moth genus usually placed in the cosmet moth family (Cosmopterigidae), subfamily Cosmopteriginae. Only a single species is known, Adeana leucoxantha. It occurs in southern Polynesia.

Adeana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Subfamily: Cosmopteriginae
Genus: Adeana
J.F.G.Clarke, 1986
Species:
A. leucoxantha
Binomial name
Adeana leucoxantha
(Meyrick, 1927)
Synonyms

Labdia leuxoxantha Meyrick, 1927

This genus may be allied to the enigmatic Clarkeophlebia argentea (another Polynesian species) and/or Asymphorodes and/or Labdia (where A. leucoxantha was originally placed). Asymphorodes, however, has more recently been assigned to the palm moths of the (somewhat disputed) family Agonoxenidae. This may thus be correct for Adeana (and Clarkeophlebia) too.

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