# Aganainae

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{{short description|Subfamily of moths}}
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| image = Aganaidae Asota speciosa 2012 01 28 1420.JPG
| image_caption = ''[Asota speciosa](/source/Asota_speciosa)'', a moth in the subfamily Aganainae, photographed in South Africa
| taxon = Aganainae
| authority = Lafontaine & Fibiger, 2006
}}

The '''Aganainae''' are a small [subfamily](/source/subfamilies) of [moth](/source/moth)s in the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae). The adults and caterpillars of this subfamily are typically large and brightly colored, like the related [tiger moths](/source/Arctiinae_(erebid_moths)).  Many of the caterpillars feed on poisonous host plants and acquire toxic [cardenolide](/source/cardenolide)s that make them unpleasant to predators.  Like the closely related [litter moth](/source/litter_moth)s, the adults have long, upturned [labial palp](/source/labial_palp)s, and the caterpillars have fully or mostly developed [proleg](/source/proleg)s on the abdomen. The Aganainae are distributed across the [tropics](/source/tropics) and [subtropics](/source/subtropics) of the [Old World](/source/Old_World).<ref name="Z+2011">{{cite journal|last1=Zahiri|first1=Reza|title=Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)|journal=Systematic Entomology|date=2011|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x|display-authors=etal|volume=37|pages=102–124|s2cid=84249695 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Taxonomy==
The subfamily was formerly placed in the families [Noctuidae](/source/Noctuidae) and [Arctiidae](/source/Arctiidae) by some authors. Other authors ranked it as a family by the names Aganaidae or Hypsidae.  Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that the Aganainae are most closely related to the [Herminiinae](/source/Herminiinae) (litter moths), and this pair of subfamilies is most closely related to the [Arctiinae](/source/Arctiinae_(erebid_moths)) (tiger and lichen moths), all within the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae).<ref name="Z+2011" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lafontaine|first1=Donald|last2=Schmidt|first2=Christian|title=Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico|journal=ZooKeys|date=19 Mar 2010|issue=40 |page=26|doi=10.3897/zookeys.40.414|url=http://publication.plazi.org/id/9A5EDE4DFFE4FF940505F942926EFFF4|ref=L&S2010|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Genera==
*''[Agape](/source/Agape_(moth))'' <small>Felder, 1874</small>
*''[Asota](/source/Asota_(moth))'' <small> Hübner, 1819</small>
*''[Digama](/source/Digama)'' <small>Moore, 1860</small>
*''[Euplocia](/source/Euplocia)'' <small> Hübner, 1819</small>
*''[Neochera](/source/Neochera)'' <small> Hübner, 1819</small>
*''[Peridrome](/source/Peridrome)'' <small>Walker, 1854</small>
*''[Phaegorista](/source/Phaegorista)'' <small>Boisduval, 1836</small>
*''[Soloe](/source/Soloe)'' <small>Walker, 1854</small>
*''[Soloella](/source/Soloella)'' <small>Gaede, 1926</small>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080720145502/http://www.ento.csiro.au/gallery/moths/Aganaidae CSIRO - High resolution images]
*[http://www.aganaidae.nl/index.html aganaidae.nl]

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Category:Aganainae
Category:Moth subfamilies

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