Aediinae

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, Zootaxa 5669 (1), pp. 1-225 : 8

17. Aediinae share some similarities with the erebid Catocalinae and were traditionally treated within that subfamily. Fibiger in Goater et al. (2003) classified the Aediinae as a subtribe of the Catocalini, however, Fibiger & Lafontaine (2005) upgraded it as a tribe of Acontiinae , a placement followed Lafontaine & Fibiger (2006). Holloway (2009) treated the group as a subfamily, which is characterised by the valvae lacking the Acontia - like lacunae immediately distal to the dorsal saccular edge. Although sclerotised, the dorsal saccular edge bears protuberances and approaches the juxta rather than being set apart on the valva. The valvae exhibit prominent basal coremata. Other uncommon features of male genitalia include: a radula-like structure dorsal to the anellus; a small, submarginal corona on the valvae; and a w-shaped juxta. The sternite in the male eighth segment is substantially shorter than the tergite, and it has a small central lacuna with a single weak corema in a few species. The corpus bursae in the Aediinae can be thicker and corrugated, but in Aedia it lacks a signum or scobinations.