Acontiinae

thumb|Acontia guttifera, South Africa thumb|Spragueia dama, Oklahoma Acontiinae is a subfamily of bird dropping moths in the family Noctuidae. There are more than 50 genera and 430 described species in Acontiinae, found worldwide in temperate and tropical climates.

==Genera== These 52 genera belong to the subfamily Acontiinae: Tribe Acontiini Guenée, 1841 Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 Eusceptis Hübner, 1823 Phyllophila Guenée, 1852 Ponometia Herrich-Schäffer, 1868 Pseudalypia H.Edwards, 1874 Spragueia Grote, 1875 Tarache Hübner, 1823 Tribe Armadini Armada Staudinger, 1884 Asplenia Hampson, 1916 Tribe Chamaecleini Aleptinoides Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 Austrazenia Warren, 1913 Chalcoecia Hampson, 1908 Chamaeclea Grote, 1883 Heminocloa Barnes & Benjamin, 1924 Hemioslaria Barnes & Benjamin, 1924 Megalodes Guenee, 1852 Thurberiphaga Dyar, 1920 Trogotorna Hampson, 1910 Not placed in a tribe Acrobyla Rebel, 1903 Alypophanes Turner, 1908 Apaustis Hübner, 1823 Barastrotia Warren, 1913 Bostrodes Hampson, 1910 Chamyris Guenée, 1852 Chara Staudinger, 1892 Cingalesa Hampson, 1884 Drasteriodes Hampson, 1926 Drobeta Walker, 1858 Duhemia Rungs, 1943 Ectrogatha Hampson, 1910 Emmelia Heterorta Warren, 1913 Lambana Walker, 1866 Metacausta Hampson, 1910 Metopoceras Guenee, 1850 Mimoruza Hampson, 1895 Outaya Chrétien, 1911 Oxytrita Warren, 1913 Parerastria Warren, 1914 Perynea Hampson, 1910 Pseudacidalia Hampson, 1894 Pyraloides Rebel, 1948 Rabila Walker, 1865 Rhodotarache Warren, 1914 Shiraia Stemmaphora Staudinger, 1888 Stenocryptis Warren, 1913 Stenorache Hampson, 1910 Tephrochares Zerny, 1933 Trissernis Meyrick, 1902 Trogoblemma Hampson, 1910