Eulepidotinae

12. Eulepidotinae View in CoL View at ENA

Eulepidotinae were raised to the subfamily within Erebidae by Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010), and classified into two tribes: Eulepidotini and Panopodini .

Adult characters. The males have long mid-tibial hair pencils arising from a groove covered with flat translucent white scales. The female genitalia have the ostial opening in the membrane between the seventh and eighth abdominal sternite, not displaced anteriorly into the seventh sternite.

Larval characters. The larvae of Indian species are cylindrical with all prolegs present, those of A3 and A4 are more slender than the others. The larva lives beneath leaves of the host plant fully stretched, and has a strong looping motion despite the full set of prolegs ( Holloway 2005).

Diversity and distribution. Approximately 400 species are known globally, with maximum diversity in New World. The only known species from India i.e., Anticarsia irrorata Fabricius is widespread. Obrima pyraloides Walker was erroneously mentioned from India by Joshi et al. (2021) and is not included herein.