Agaristinae

14. Agaristinae View in CoL View at ENA have often been treated as a family ( Kiriakoff 1977), but Kitching (1984) recognized them at the rank of subfamily with several prominent apomorphic characters: the counter-tympanum is several times the size of the tympanal membrane and the counter-tympanal hood nonexistent or severely diminished. Vein M2 is frequently obsolete in the hindwing as it is in other trifines. In the male genitalia, the harpe is strong and simple in most genera; a corona is present in some cases; the ductus ejaculatorius is placed more or less centrally along the length of the vesica, and many genera have lateral rods on sternite 8. In female genitalia is mainly characterized by the narrow, triangular ovipositor lobes with long apodemes; long, exceedingly narrow and unsclerotized ductus bursae, sometime with a short basal part that is larger and sclerotized; bursa is small, unadorned, or very delicately scobinate; eighth segment is a simple, sclerotized ring, again with lengthy apodemes. All of the larvae’s prolegs are present and visible. No secondary setae are present. According to Sugi (1987), the pattern typically consists of irregular white reticulations over black, with the white regions being ringed or patched with orange or yellow.