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Snouted Tiger Moths
Aganainae
The Aganainae are a small subfamily of moths in the Erebidae family. The adults and caterpillars of this subfamily are typically large and brightly colored, like the related tiger moths. Many of the caterpillars feed on poisonous host plants and acquire toxic cardenolides that make them unpleasant to predators. Like the closely related litter moths, the adults have long, upturned labial palps, and the caterpillars have fully or mostly developed prolegs on the abdomen. The Aganainae...
18 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Asota
genusAsota

Mecodina
genusMecodina

Aganas
genusSommeria

Agape
genusAgape

Neochera
genusNeochera

Peridrome
genusPeridrome

Euplocia
genusEuplocia

Psimada
genusPsimada

Phaegorista
genusPhaegorista

Soloe
genusSoloe

Soloella
genusSoloella

Carpostalagma
genusCarpostalagma

Stemonoceras
genusStemonoceras

Hypsiforma
genusHypsiforma

Mecodinops
genusMecodinops

Godasa
genusGodasa

Calpoparia
genusCalpoparia
Parasoloe
genusParasoloe
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 122485.