2-418: The Aganainae are a small subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae . 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
4-530: The caterpillars have fully or mostly developed prolegs on the abdomen. The Aganainae are distributed across the tropics and subtropics of the Old World . The subfamily was formerly placed in the families Noctuidae and Arctiidae by some authors. Other authors ranked it as a family by the names Aganaidae or Hypsidae. Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that the Aganainae are most closely related to
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