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Systematic Treatment 



Subfamily AGRAMMATINAE Douglas and Scott 



Agrammidae Douglas and Scott, 1865, p. 24 (as "family' ). 



Serenthiaria Stal, 1873, pp. 116, 117; 1874, p. 46.— Puton, 1879, p. 89 — 



Distant, 1903c, p. 126— Horvath, 1906c, p. 107.— Oshanin, 1908, p. 457; 



1912, p. 46. (As "division.") 

 Agramminae Drake and Maa, 1955, p. 10. — China and Miller, 1955, p. 261. 



Type genus: Agramma Stephens (1829a). 



Remarks: Because the name of the type genus, Agramma, is neuter 

 (from the Greek, stem "Agrammatos"), the correct spelling of the 

 subfamily name is "Agrammatinae," not "Agramminae." 



Van Duzee (1917, p. 223) wrongly included a genus and species 

 of piesmatid as a Nearctic representative of this subfamily. 



Genera of Subfamily Agrammatinae 



Agramma Stephens (1829a, p. 64; 1829b, p. 336). 



Type species: Tingis laela Fallen (1807, p. 40). See plate 1, herein. 



Fixation: Stephens (1829a, p. 64), by monotypy. 



Later citations: China (1943, p. 248); Monte (1947, p. 4); Drake 

 (1955c, p. 1). 



Synonyms: Drakea, Serenthia, Wombalia, Serenthiella, Paraserenihia. 



Note: China (1943, p. 248) resurrected Agramma Stephens — until 

 then wrongly accredited in the literature to Westwood (1840, 

 p. 120) — as a valid genus based upon a well-known included 

 species (Tingis laeta Fallen, 1807). Agramma is not a nomen 

 nudum, as theretofore cited, and has priority by 12 years over 

 Serenthia. The tj^pe species of the latter is congeneric with 

 laeta Fallen. Wagner (1941, pp. 1-27, figs.) divided the genus 

 Serenthia Spinola into four subgenera: Agramma Westwood, 

 Serenthia Spinola, Serenthiella, and Paraserenihia. Drake (1956d, 

 p. 7) pointed out that Wagner's new subgenera (Serenthiella and 

 Paraserenihia) were not applicable for the inclusion of many of 

 the Old World species and relegated all into synonymy as insep- 

 arable from typical Serenthia. Wombalia Schouteden was sup- 

 pressed by Drake (1954a, p. 13) as a synonym of Serenthia. 



Distribution of species: Ethiopian (22), Palearctic (17), Oriental 

 (10), Australian (1), Malagasy (1). 



Number of species: 49. 



Ceratinoderma Stal (1873, p. 117). 



Type species: Ceratinoderma fornicata Stal (1873, p. 117). 

 Fixation: Stal (1873, p. 117), by monotypy. 



