The Phaegopterina are a subtribe of tiger moths in the tribe Arctiini, which is part of the family Erebidae. The subtribe was described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892. 469 species of Phaegopterina are present and 52 that are recently discovered in Brazil.
Taxonomic history The subtribe was previously classified as the tribe Phaegopterini of the family Arctiidae.
In 2002, Jacobson & Weller proposed a clade Euchaetes within Arctiini.Jacobson NL & Weller SJ (2002) A cladistic study of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera) by using characters of immatures and adults. Thomas Say publications in entomology: 1-98, Entomologica Society of America: Lanham, Maryland. In 2010, V. V. Dubatolov proposed that this clade should be classified as subtribe Euchaetina, containing eight arctiini genera, including Euchaetes.Dubatolov VV (2010) Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65:1-106 However, the name Euchaetina does not appear in the comprehensive 2010 checklist assembled by J. Donald Lafontaine and B. Christian Schmidt, nor its later updated versions, which place those genera under Phaegopterina.
Genera The following genera are included in the subtribe. Numerous arctiine genera have not yet been assigned to a subtribe, so this genus list may be incomplete.
Aemilia Agaraea Amastus Amaxia Ammalo Anaxita Amphelarctia Aphyarctia Aphyle Apiconoma Apocrisias Apyre Araeomolis Arctagyrta Arctiarpia Astralarctia Azatrephes Baritius Bernathonomus Bertholdia Biturix Calidota Carales Carathis Castrica Cissura Coiffaitarctia Cratoplastis Cresera Cycnia Demolis Dialeucias Diaphanophora Disconeura Echeta Ectypia Elysius Emurena Epicrisias Epimolis Eriostepta Ernassa Euchaetes Eucyrta Euerythra (formerly in Arctiina) Eupseudosoma Evius Fasslia Glaucostola Gonotrephes Gorgonidia Graphea Haemanota Haemaphlebiella Halysidota Haplonerita Hemihyalea (may belong in Amastus) Himerarctia Hyalarctia Hyperandra Hyperthaema Hypidalia Hypidota Hypocrisias Hyponerita Idalus Ischnocampa Ischnognatha Kodiosoma (formerly in Arctiina) Laguerreia (tentatively placed here) Lalanneia (tentatively placed here) Lampruna Lepidojulia Lepidokirbyia Lepidolutzia Lepidozikania Lepypiranga Lerina (tentatively placed here) Leucanopsis Lophocampa Machadoia Machaeraptenus Mazaeras Melanarctia Melese Mellamastus Metacrisia Metaxanthia Munona Nannodota Neidalia Neonerita Neoplynes Neozatrephes Nezula Nyearctia Ochrodota Onythes Opharus Ordishia Ormetica Pachydota Pagara Parathyris Pareuchaetes Parevia Pelochyta Phaegoptera Phaeomolis Pitane Pithea Premolis Pryteria Pseudamastus Pseudapistosia Pseudepimolis Pseudischnocampa Pseudohemihyalea (formerly in Hemihyalea) Pseudopharus Pseudotessellarctia Psychophasma Purius Pydnaodes Pygarctia Pygoctenucha Regobarrosia Rhipha Robinsonia Romualdia Scaptius Schalotomis Selenarctia Senecauxia (tentatively placed here) Soritena Stidzaeras Sutonocrea Sychesia Symphlebia Syntomostola Tessella Tessellarctia Tessellota Thyromolis Thysanoprymna Trichromia Tricypha Trocodima Turuptiana Viviennea Wanderbiltia Watsonidia Xanthoarctia Xanthophaeina Zaevius Zatrephes
References
Further reading Lafontaine, J. D. & Fibiger, M. (2006). "Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera)". Canadian Entomologist. 138: 610–635. Lafontaine, J. D. & Schmidt, B. C. (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 1–239. Schmidt, B. C. & Opler, P. A. (2008). "Revised checklist of the tiger moths of the Continental United States and Canada". Zootaxa. 1677: 1-23. Witt, T. J. & Ronkay, L. (2011). "Lymantriinae and Arctiinae - Including Phylogeny and Check List of the Quadrifid Noctuoidea of Europe". Noctuidae Europaeae. 13: 1-44 Teston, J. A., & Ferro, V. G. (2016). Arctiini Leach, (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) of the Brazilian Amazon. I—Subtribe Phaegopterina Kirby, 1892. Check list, 12(2), 1852.