Asota (moth)

{{short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Aganaidae Asota speciosa 2012 01 28 1420.JPG | image_caption = ''Asota speciosa'', South Africa | taxon = Asota | authority = Hübner, 1819 | synonyms = * ''Aganais'' * ''Antichera'' * ''Aspa'' * ''Damalis'' * ''Euimata'' * ''Hypsa'' * ''Lacides'' * ''Petalia'' * ''Psephea'' * ''Pseudhypsa'' }}

'''''Asota''''' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Species are widely distributed throughout Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the Malayan region and tropical parts of the Australian region.

==Description== Palpi upturned, where the second joint reaching the vertex of the head and the third joint is slender in variable lengths. Antennae fasciculated (bundled) in males and ciliated (hairy) in females. Forewings with vein 5 from the lower angle of cell or just above it. Vein 6 from the upper angle or below it. Areole absent. Hindwings with vein 5 from just above lower angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from the upper angle.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1892 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180068#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.100745|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== The genus was formerly placed in the families Noctuidae and Arctiidae by some authors. Other authors placed them in the family Aganaidae or Hypsidae. Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that the Aganainae are most closely related to the Herminiinae (litter moths), and this pair of subfamilies is most closely related to the Arctiinae (tiger and lichen moths), all within the family Erebidae.<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><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=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2182|ref=L&S2010|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Species== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * ''Asota albiformis'' Swinhoe, 1892 * ''Asota albivena'' Walker, 1864 * ''Asota alienata'' Walker, 1864 * ''Asota antennalis'' Rothschild, 1897 * ''Asota australis'' Boisduval, 1832 * ''Asota avacta'' Swinhoe, 1892 * ''Asota borbonica'' Boisduval, 1833 * ''Asota brunnescens'' Nieuwenhuis, 1948 * ''Asota buruensis'' Zwier, 2010 * ''Asota caledonica'' Holloway, 1979 * ''Asota canaraica'' Moore, 1878 * ''Asota caricae'' Fabricius, 1775 * ''Asota carsina'' Swinhoe, 1906 * ''Asota chionea'' Mabille, 1878 * ''Asota circularis'' Reich, 1938 * ''Asota clara'' Butler, 1875 * ''Asota comorana'' Aurivillius, 1909 * ''Asota concinnula'' Mabille, 1878 * ''Asota concolora'' Swinhoe, 1903 * ''Asota contorta'' Aurivillius, 1894 * ''Asota darsania'' Druce, 1894 * ''Asota diana'' Butler, 1887 * ''Asota diastropha'' Prout, 1918 * ''Asota dohertyi'' Rothschild, 1897 * ''Asota egens'' (Walker, 1854) * ''Asota eusemioides'' Felder, 1874 * ''Asota fereunicolor'' Toulgoët, 1972 * ''Asota ficus'' Fabricius, 1775 * ''Asota fulvia'' Donovan, 1805 * ''Asota heliconia'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Asota heliconioides'' Moore, 1878 * ''Asota iodamia'' Herrich Schäffer, 1854 * ''Asota isthmia'' Walker, 1856 * ''Asota javana'' Cramer, [1780] * ''Asota kageri'' Kobes, 1988 * ''Asota kinabaluensis'' Rothschild, 1896 * ''Asota orbona'' Vollenhoven, 1863 * ''Asota paliura'' Swinhoe, 1893 * ''Asota paphos'' (Fabricius, 1787) * ''Asota plagiata'' Walker, 1854 * ''Asota plaginota'' Butler, 1875 * ''Asota plana'' Walker, 1854 * ''Asota producta'' (Butler, 1875) * ''Asota sericea'' Moore, 1878 * ''Asota spadix'' Swinhoe, 1901 * ''Asota speciosa'' Drury, 1773 * ''Asota strigosa'' Boisduval, 1832 * ''Asota sulamangoliensis'' Zwier, 2010 * ''Asota subsimilis'' Walker, 1864 * ''Asota suffusa'' Snellen, 1891 * ''Asota sulawesiensis'' Zwier, 2007 * ''Asota tigrina'' Butler, 1882 * ''Asota tortuosa'' Moore, 1872 * ''Asota trinacria'' Semper, 1899 * ''Asota woodfordi'' Druce, 1888 {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/aganainae/asota/ |title=''Asota'' Hübner, [1819] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=December 30, 2017}} * {{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}

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