Hadeninae

Sugar cane armyworm Leucania stenographa, copyright Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker.

Belongs within: Xyleninae.

The Hadeninae are a group of moths whose larvae often feed on grasses (Poaceae); the oblong, smooth eggs are often laid in clusters in a gel. Adults have hairy, unlashed eyes and unspined tibiae (Nielsen & Common 1991). Members include the Glottulini, a small group of colourful moths found in the Malesian region whose larvae feed on bulbs of Amaryllidaceae. Leucania is a genus of cryptically coloured moths with fore wings bearing striate brown shading on a tan background that rest by day among dry grasses.

Hadeninae M99
    `--Glottulini [Glottulidae, Glottulinae] ZK11
         |--Chasmina cygnus WM66
         `--Diaphone capillamentum ZK11

Hadeninae incertae sedis:
  Metopiora sanguinata (Lucas 1892) M99
  Dasygaster padockina NC91
  Tiracola plagiata NC91
  Hadena P01
    |--H. amanda Swinhoe 1901 S01
    |--H. ochroleuca F92
    |--H. lateritia P01
    |--H. tritici R13
    `--H. turbulenta S96
  Persectania NC91
    |--P. atristriga M83
    |--P. aversa M83
    |--P. ewingii NC91
    `--P. steropastis L27
  Pseudaletia C70
    |--P. adultera [=Cirphis adultera] S72
    |--P. convecta C70
    |--P. separata H74
    `--P. unipuncta LY07
  Leucania M99
    |--L. albicosta [=Cirphis albicosta] T69
    |--L. albipuncta F92
    |--L. alopa T27
    |--L. amblycasis T69
    |--L. atristriga T27
    |--L. comma F92
    |--L. commoides T69
    |--L. cruegeri MC13
    |--L. griseipennis T27
    |--L. insueta T69
    |--L. juncicola T69
    |--L. latiuscula T69
    |--L. linda T69
    |--L. linita T69
    |--L. littoralis F92
    |--L. loreyi F92
    |--L. lithargyrea F92
    |--L. miasticta T69
    |--L. mollis L27
    |--L. multilinea T69
    |--L. oaxacana T69
    |--L. obsoleta F92
    |--L. obtusa Guenée 1852 M99
    |--L. pallens F92
    |--L. phragmitidicola T69
    |--L. pseudargyria T69
    |--L. purdii T27
    |--L. scirpicola T69
    |--L. semivittata T27
    |--L. separata F92
    |--L. solita H01
    |--L. stenographa Lower 1900 M99
    |--L. unipunctata B88
    |--L. ursula T69
    `--L. vitellina T69

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

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Last updated: 21 February 2021.