Scardamiini

The female genitalia mostly have the ovipositor lobes acute rather than transverse or ring-like. The ductus is usually long, slender, and the bursa may be generally scobinate or have signa.

Gardner (1947) placed members of the Etanna group referred to above together with Nycteola Hübner in a subgroup of his Division C, sharing characters of head setae and relative positions of the ocelli. The body setae are generally long.

The Etanna group mentioned above has several records of larvae feeding on flowers, seeds and fruits as well as on foliage (e.g. in Robinson et al., 2001). Also noted below is the ability of larvae in two of the genera to move in reverse as well as forwards, unusual amongst the Macrolepidoptera.