Anereuthina Hübner, 1823: 23

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 5165 (1), pp. 79-94 : 87

Genus Anereuthina Hübner, 1823: 23

Type species: Anereuthina renosa Hübner, 1823 (Type locality: Java ( Indonesia))

= Hypaetra Guenée, 1852b: 259 .

Taxonomic notes: The genus Anereuthina Hübner, 1823 was erected as a monotypic for its type species, A. renosa in the family Ophiusidae . Globally, the genus is known by three species, of which, A. renosa is restricted to the Oriental tropics, while, A. atriplaga ( Walker, 1869) and A. somaliensis ( Berio, 1985) are distributed in Afrotropics. The members of this genus are usually large with variable black patch on relatively dull brown forewing. The patch is somewhat similar to the one situated most distally on the forewing of Avatha Walker, [1858b] , whose several species were earlier described under Hypaetra , a junior synonym of Anereuthina . The males of Anereuthina have robustly filiform antennae and scale tufts on the tibia of all legs. The male genitalia have some characters typical to the genus, such as the uncus apex produced into a small ball and claw, scaphium present, inverted Y-shaped juxta, paddle-like valva with a slender harpe on the sacculus. The female genitalia have ostium situated anterior to the eighth segment which opens into slender, sclerotized ductus bursae which then continues to an elliptical corpus bursae of similar length and with sparse to coarse scobinations.