Aegista is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.

[1] Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

The thin, conical or lenticular shell is depressed and widely umbilicated.

The rounded body whorl is descending in front.

[2] In the past, this genus has often been used interchangeably with Plectotropis Martens, 1860 This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.