Subfamily Acronictinae (= Amphipyrinae + Acronictinae)

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Introduction

The subfamily is here treated as including species in Amphipyrinae. The group is often referred to as Acronictinae/Amphipyrinae since adults of the two subfamiles are difficult to separate (see Nielsen et al. (1996: 293) for discussion).

Nielsen et al. (1996) listed a number of species, often grouped to indicate a relationship, but for which no genus name was available. Here these names are all grouped under the category 'Unplaced species'. Users are urged to refer to the published checklist for groupings among these.

Amphipyrinae were recovered as sister to Acronictinae by Rota et al. (2016) but with weak support. On the other hand, Eda & Yanagita (2011) treated some genera as Acronictinae which proved to belong to Amphipyrinae (see Rota et al. 2016). The Australian Acronictinae species need a thorough revision since Nielsen et al. (1996) treated these two subfamilies as a common taxonomic unit (Kiss, 2017).

General References

Eda, E. & Yanagita, Y. 2011. Acronictinae. In, Kishida, Y. The Standard of Moths in Japan II: Notodontidae, Lymantriidae, Arctiidae, Aganaidae, Micronoctuidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae. Tokyo : Gakken Education Publishing pp.300. [In Japanese] [295]

Kiss, A. 2017. Taxonomic review of the Craniophora s. l. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acronictinae) generic complex with description of 8 new genera and 13 new species. Zootaxa 4355(1): 001–090 [48]

Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.

Rota, J., Zacharczenko, B.V., Wahlberg, N., Zahiri, R., Schmidt, B.C. & Wagner, D.L. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of Acronictinae with discussion of the abdominal courtship brush in Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Systematic Entomology 41(2): 416-429 [Date published 15 Dec 2015] (Accessed 27 Aug 2020)

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