Genus Hyperstrotia Hampson, 1910

Hyperstrotia Hampson, 1910, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 10: xvi, 556. Type-species: Thalpochares aetheria Grote, 1879 [USA, Florida] (? = Cryphia nana Hübner, 1818).

Synonymy: Jaspidia Hübner, 1808, suppr. (ICZN, 1966 Op. 789); Jaspidia Hübner, 1818, unavailable; Protocryphia Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 .

The genus Hyperstrotia, into which Hampson (1910) originally placed two New World and eight Old World species, is currently belongs to the family Erebidae, subfamily Boletobiinae, tribe Phytometrinae (Lafontaine & Schmidt 2010). However, the results of molecular analysis suggests the Phytometrinae is at best a tribe within the Boletobiinae (D. Lafontaine, pers. comm.; Holloway 2011; Zahiri et al. 2011). Poole (1989) listed ten Old World and six New World species of Hyperstrotia, however Hyperstotia is a heterogeneous assemblage in his concept and requires revision. Some Old World species of Hyperstrotia have already been transferred to other genera: Hyperstrotia inordinata (Walker, [1863] 1864) to Chorsia Walker, [1863] 1864; Hyperstrotia meeki Bethune-Baker, 1906 and Hyperstrotia molybdota Hampson, 1910 to Meekstrotia Holloway, 2009 of the subfamily Eustrotiinae (Holloway 2009) . In the present article we have already transfered H. flavipuncta to the genus Strotihypera (Elaphriini, Noctuinae). The systematic position of other Old World species ( Hyperstrotia albida Hampson, 1910 [Irak]; H. ochreipuncta [Taiwan]; H. macroplaga [Sri Lanka]; H. semiochrea Hampson, 1898 [India]; H. variata Wileman & West, 1929 [Philipines]) requires revision.