Chalcosiinae

The members of Chalcosiinae are distributed throughout Palearctic East Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. The majority of the subfamily extending as far north as the Russian Far-East (Elcysma westwoodi{{cite web |title=Elcysma westwoodi, color image |url=http://szmn.eco.nsc.ru/picts/Heterocera/Zygaenidae/Elcysma_westwoodi.htm |website=szmn.eco.nsc.ru |accessdate=31 August 2019}}) and as far west as Pakistan (Campylotes). A single genus, Aglaope is disjunctly distributed from the remainder of the subfamily, being found in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France.

A large majority of Chalcosiine moths engage in mimicry complexes with a large variety of butterflies and moths. Yen Shen-Horn designates 19 unique types, separated by wing patterns which allow the ability to mimic a large variety of lepidopterans.

Species that are mimicked by Chalcosiine moths include:

Laelia, Pantana, Calinaga, Parantica, Aporia, Idea, Ideopsis, Euploea, Danaus, Delias, Eurema, Milionia, Scrobigera, Nyctemera, Dysphania, Lithosiinae, Sesiidae, Syntomini, Asota, Damias, Retina, Troidini, Melanothrix

Alberti (1954) created five tribes within the subfamily. The five tribes only covered 40 genera, with the remaining 25 genera at the time lacking the proper material to warrant division. With this subfamily's notorious obscurity, and the relative variation between species and subspecies, the relationships between members is still quite indeterminate.{{cite journal |last1=Quicke |first1=Donald L. J. |last2=Robinson |first2=Gaden S. |last3=Yen |first3=Shen-Horn |title=The phylogenetic relationships of Chalcosiinae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Zygaenidae) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=1 February 2005 |volume=143 |issue=2 |pages=161–341 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00139.x |language=en |issn=0024-4082|doi-access=free }} S.H. Yen and team (2005) proposes 18 clades, with the Heteropanini being elevated to subfamily level. Clade 1 encompassing Agalopini and Aglaopini, Clade 2 encompassing an extended Cyclosiini, and Chalcosiini being the remainder of clades 6-18. As they describe, the nomenclature for this subfamily is currently unstable and is subject to further revision.

The subfamily consists of about 380 species in 70 genera. It contains the following generaWikispecies: Chalcosiinae. Version of 14:15, 7 November 2006. Wikispecies is not overly reliable for Lepidoptera and should be replaced by a scientific source.{{cite web |editor-last=Beccaloni |editor-first=George |display-editors=etal |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/search/list/?indexed_from=1&page_no=1&subfamily=Chalcosiinae&page_size=500 |title=Search Results Subfamily: Chalcosiinae |website=The Global Lepidoptera Names Index |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}

• Aglaope

• Agalope
• Boradia
• Campylotes
• Chalcophaedra
• Corma
• Elcysma
• Herpa
• Philopator
• Rhodopsona

• Cadphises
• Cyclosia
• Hampsonia

• Amesia
• Anarbudas
• Aphantocephala
• Caprima
• Chalcosia
• Docleopsis
• Erasmia
• Erasmiphlebohecta
• Eterusia
• Eusphalera
• Gynautocera
• Histia
• Milleria
• Pidorus
• Pompelon
• Prosopandrophila
• Psaphis
• Pseudarbudas
• Pseudonyctemera
• Pseudoscaptesyle
• Retina
• Soritia
• Trypanophora

• Arbudas
• Chalcosiopsis
• Eumorphiopais
• Heteropan

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• Achelura
• Allocyclosia
• Atelesia
• Barbaroscia
• Boradiopsis
• Canerkes
• Clematoessa
• Cleoda
• Codane
• Cryptophysophilus
• Cyanidia
• Devanica
• Didina
• Docleomorpha
• Epyrgis
• Eucorma
• Eucormopsis
• Euxanthopyge
• Hadrionella
• Hemiscia
• Hemichrysoptera
• Herpidia
• Herpolasia
• Heteropanula
• Heterusinula
• Isbarta
• Isocrambia
• Laurion
• Mimascaptesyle
• Mimeuploea
• Neochalcosia
• Neoherpa
• Opisoplatia
• Panherpina
• Phlebohecta
• Pintia
• Sciodoclea
• Scotopais
• Thaumastophleps
• Watermenia

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