Subfamily Aganainae Boisduval, 1833

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Subfamily Aganainae Boisduval, 1833

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Aganainae Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1833. Memoire sur les Lepidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 2(2): 149-270.
Type genus:
Aganais Boisduval, 1832.
Secondary source:
Zahiri, R., Holloway, J.D., Kitching, I.J., Lafontaine, J.D., Mutanen, M. & Wahlberg, N. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Systematic Entomology 37(1): 102-124 [Date published online 31 Oct 2011].
Aganaides Boisduval, 1833.
Hypsidae Walker, [1865].
Type genus:
Hypsa Hübner, (1819).
Asotinae Turner, 1904.
Type genus:
Asota Hübner, (1819).

Introduction

[Modified after Edwards 1996: 287]
Aganainae have previously been considered a family (as Aganaidae or as Hypsidae) or a subfamily of the Arctiidae. Many of the Australian species were revised by Rothschild and Jordan (1896a, 1896b, 1897) (as Aganaidae). The Indoaustralian fauna was included in Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World by Seitz (1914) (as Hypsinae) and the world fauna listed in Lepidopterorum Catalogus by Gaede (1932) (as Aganaidae). The Australian species were reviewed by Turner (1921) as the Hypsidae but Turner also included Nyctemera Hübner and its allies.

Higher classification within the Noctuoidea has been examined in detail in recent papers such as Zahiri et al. (2011, 2012). It is clear that the arrangement used by Edwards (1996) does not reflect the currently accepted classification. However, a significant proportion of Australian genera have not been included in these recent analyses, so it is not possible to place them into the currently accepted classification with confidence.

Digama Moore is widespread in northern Australia but all the other species are confined to rainforest or monsoon forest habitats. All the species occur outside Australia except Asota iodamia (Herrich-Schäffer).