Acontiinae
| Acontiinae | |
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| Ponometia erastrioides, Oklahoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Subfamily: | Acontiinae Guenée, 1841 |
| Tribes | |
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Acontiinae is a subfamily of bird dropping moths in the family Noctuidae. There are more than 50 genera and 430 described species in Acontiinae, found worldwide in temperate and tropical climates.[1][2][3][4][5]
Genera
[edit]These 52 genera belong to the subfamily Acontiinae:
- Tribe Acontiini Guenée, 1841
- Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816
- Eusceptis Hübner, 1823
- Phyllophila Guenée, 1852
- Ponometia Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
- Pseudalypia H.Edwards, 1874
- Spragueia Grote, 1875
- Tarache Hübner, 1823
- Tribe Armadini
- Armada Staudinger, 1884
- Asplenia Hampson, 1916
- Tribe Chamaecleini
- Aleptinoides Barnes & McDunnough, 1912
- Austrazenia Warren, 1913
- Chalcoecia Hampson, 1908
- Chamaeclea Grote, 1883
- Heminocloa Barnes & Benjamin, 1924
- Hemioslaria Barnes & Benjamin, 1924
- Megalodes Guenee, 1852
- Thurberiphaga Dyar, 1920
- Trogotorna Hampson, 1910
- Not placed in a tribe
- Acrobyla Rebel, 1903
- Alypophanes Turner, 1908
- Apaustis Hübner, 1823
- Barastrotia Warren, 1913
- Bostrodes Hampson, 1910
- Chamyris Guenée, 1852
- Chara Staudinger, 1892
- Cingalesa Hampson, 1884
- Drasteriodes Hampson, 1926
- Drobeta Walker, 1858
- Duhemia Rungs, 1943
- Ectrogatha Hampson, 1910
- Emmelia
- Heterorta Warren, 1913
- Lambana Walker, 1866
- Metacausta Hampson, 1910
- Metopoceras Guenee, 1850
- Mimoruza Hampson, 1895
- Outaya Chrétien, 1911
- Oxytrita Warren, 1913
- Parerastria Warren, 1914
- Perynea Hampson, 1910
- Pseudacidalia Hampson, 1894
- Pyraloides Rebel, 1948
- Rabila Walker, 1865
- Rhodotarache Warren, 1914
- Shiraia
- Stemmaphora Staudinger, 1888
- Stenocryptis Warren, 1913
- Stenorache Hampson, 1910
- Tephrochares Zerny, 1933
- Trissernis Meyrick, 1902
- Trogoblemma Hampson, 1910
References
[edit]- ^ "Acontiinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ^ "Acontiinae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ^ Wagner, David L.; Keegan, Kevin; Bugh, Valerie G. (2019). "A Tale of Two Caterpillars and Reclassification of Cerathosia Smith and Cydosia Duncan [& Westwood] (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 73 (1): 1. doi:10.18473/lepi.73i1.a1.
- ^ Keegan, Kevin; Rota, Jadranka; Zahiri, Reza; Zilli, Alberto; et al. (2021). "Toward a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 5 (3). doi:10.1093/isd/ixab005.
- ^ Savela, Markku (August 2, 2019). "Acontiinae Guenée, 1841". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
Further reading
[edit]- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. Bibcode:2010ZooK...40....1L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
External links
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Media related to Acontiinae at Wikimedia Commons
