CHRYSAUGINAE in Australia PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

CHRYSAUGINAE moths

CHRYSAUGINAE undersides

There are taxonomic suggestions that genera in this subfamily should be placed within the subfamily ODONTIINAE, but here following the Checklist of Australian Lepidoptera we keep them together in this subfamily.

The 6 named species in CHRYSAUGINAE in Australia are:

Anassodes mesozonalis

Hednotodes callichroa

Hednotodes metaxantha

Macna coelocrossa
Macna oppositalis

Polyterpnes polyrrhoda

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(written 30 March 2019, updated 12 April 2019, 26 November 2021)