AGANAINAE of Australia
Tropical Tiger Moths
(formerly known as HYPSIDAE)
EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

AGANAINAE

caterpillars
  
AGANAINAE

pupa
  
AGANAINAE

moths
  
AGANAINAE

undersides
  
AGANAINAE

forewings

Sometimes this is listed as a sub-family of ARCTIINAE, but here, following the more recent Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) we list it as a subfamily of EREBIDAE. The 9 named Australian species in AGANAINAE are:

Agape chloropyga

Asota australis
Asota caricae
Asota heliconia
Asota iodamia
Asota orbona
Asota plagiata

Digama marmorea : Six-spotted Moth

Neochera dominia


Further reading :

Peter Hendry,
The Aganainae,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 58 (September 2010), pp. 21-22.


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(updated 31 May 2014, 4 December 2024)