''Apantesis'' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. They are found in North and Central America. As a result of phylogenetic research published in 2016, the genera ''Grammia'', ''Holarctia'', and ''Notarctia'' have been merged with ''Apantesis'', and their species are now members of the genus ''Apantesis''.

Species

The genus contains the following species: * ''

Apantesis allectans ''Apantesis allectans'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Douglas C. Ferguson in 1985. It is found in the Mexican states of Durango and Sonora and the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Ha ...

'' Ferguson, 1985 * ''

Apantesis anna ''Apantesis anna'', the Anna tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of we ...

'' (Grote, 1863) – Anna tiger moth * ''

Apantesis arge ''Apantesis arge'', the arge moth or arge tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was Species description, first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America from Quebec and Maine to Florida, West to New Mexico, ...

'' (Drury, 1773) – arge moth * '' Apantesis arizoniensis'' (Stretch, 874 * ''

Apantesis behrii ''Apantesis behrii'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Stretch in 1872. It is found from Oregon south to California. It is most common in the Siskiyou and Sierra Nevada ranges. The habitat consists of dry lithosol flood plai ...

'' (Stretch, 1872) * ''

Apantesis blakei ''Apantesis blakei'', or Blake's tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1864. It is found on the North American Great Plains, and southern prairie provinces of Canada. The larvae feed on ' ...

'' (Grote, 1864) * ''

Apantesis bolanderi ''Apantesis bolanderi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromot ...

'' (Stretch, 1872) * ''

Apantesis bowmani ''Apantesis bowmani'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Douglas C. Ferguson and B. Christian Schmidt in 2007. It is found in the United States in western Colorado and southeastern Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the M ...

'' (Ferguson & Schmidt, 2007) * ''

Apantesis brillians ''Apantesis brillians'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is found in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah ...

'' Schmidt, 2009 * ''

Apantesis carlotta ''Apantesis carlotta'', or Carlotta's tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Douglas C. Ferguson in 1985. It is found in the US from Maine to Georgia, west to North Dakota and Texas. The wingspan The wingspan (or ...

'' Ferguson, 1985 – Carlotta's tiger moth * '' Apantesis cervinoides'' (Strecker, 1876) * ''

Apantesis complicata ''Apantesis complicata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found on south-eastern Vancouver Island and several Gulf Islands of British Columbia and Washington Washington commonly refers to: * ...

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Apantesis doris ''Apantesis doris'', the Doris tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1869. It is found in North America from British Columbia, northern Idaho, Alberta and western Montana. In the east, it is ...

'' (Boisduval, 1869) – Doris tiger moth * ''

Apantesis edwardsii ''Apantesis edwardsii'' is a moth of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromo ...

'' (Stretch, 1872) * ''

Apantesis elongata ''Apantesis elongata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Stretch in 1885. It is found in south-western British Columbia and west-central Alberta, south to Montana and Washington. It has also been recorded from north-eas ...

'' (Stretch, 1885) * ''

Apantesis eureka ''Apantesis eureka'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Douglas C. Ferguson and B. Christian Schmidt in 2007. It has been found in the United States along the edges of the Great Basin in central Utah and in southwestern Idaho ...

'' Ferguson & Schmidt, 2007 * ''

Apantesis f-pallida ''Apantesis f-pallida'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Strecker in 1878. It is found from south-eastern Utah and Colorado south to eastern Arizona, New Mexico and eastern Texas. It has also been recorded from west-central ...

'' (Strecker, 1878) * ''

Apantesis favorita ''Apantesis favorita'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Berthold Neumoegen in 1890. It is found in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, Nevada and north-eastern Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain ...

'' (Neumögen, 1890) * ''

Apantesis fergusoni ''Apantesis fergusoni'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is found in the central Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of California California is a state in the Western United States, located alon ...

'' Schmidt, 2009 * ''

Apantesis figurata ''Apantesis figurata'', the figured tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America from southern Ontario and New Hampshire south to Georgia and west to Colorado and Texas. The a ...

'' (Drury, 1773) – figured tiger moth * ''

Apantesis franconia ''Apantesis franconia'' is a moth of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth ...

'' (H. Edwards, 1888) * ''

Apantesis hewletti ''Apantesis hewletti'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918. It is found in the United States in southwestern California California is a U.S. state, state in the Wester ...

'' (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) * ''

Apantesis incorrupta ''Apantesis incorrupta'' is an arctiine moth in the family Erebidae, described by Henry Edwards in 1881. It is found from southern Colorado and south-eastern Kansas south through Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas into Mexico and west to sou ...

'' (H. Edwards, 1881) * ''

Apantesis margo ''Apantesis margo'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is found in grassland and transitional habitats on the northern Great Plains and Southern Rocky Mountain Front ranges, south to east-central Arizona ...

'' Schmidt, 2009 * ''

Apantesis nais ''Apantesis nais'', the Nais tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Dru Drury in 1773. Description The wingspan is . Forewings are mostly black with cream-colored costal border and lines extending from base in males. ...

'' (Drury, 1773) – Nais tiger moth * ''

Apantesis nevadensis ''Apantesis nevadensis'', the Nevada tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1866. It is found in the Pacific Northwest of North America, as well as the inter mo ...

'' (Grote & Robinson, 1866) – Nevada tiger moth * ''

Apantesis obliterata ''Apantesis obliterata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Richard Harper Stretch in 1885. It is found in Russia (Khakasia, eastern Sayan, southern Baikal region, Transbaikalia, Middle Amur basin, central Yakutia), Mongolia and ...

'' (Stretch, 1885) * ''

Apantesis ornata ''Apantesis ornata'', the ornate tiger moth or achaia moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864. It is found in western North America from southern British Columbia through the Pacific Northwest to ...

'' (Packard, 1864) * ''

Apantesis parthenice The parthenice tiger moth (''Apantesis parthenice'') is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in south-eastern Canada, and the eastern United States. The moths are common in fields and woodland edges from June to late September. The moth i ...

'' (W. Kirby, 1837) – parthenice tiger moth * ''

Apantesis phalerata ''Apantesis phalerata'', the harnessed tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841.Cirrus Digital"Harnessed Tiger Moth ''Apantesis phalerata''" It is found in North America fr ...

'' (Harris, 1841) – harnessed tiger moth * ''

Apantesis philipiana ''Apantesis philipiana'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Douglas C. Ferguson in 1985. It is found in the far northwest of North America from Wrangel Island west to Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories and south to D ...

'' Ferguson, 1985 * '' Apantesis phyllira'' (Drury, 1773) – phyllira tiger moth * ''

Apantesis placentia ''Apantesis placentia'', the placentia tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by James Edward Smith in 1797. It is found in the south-eastern United States, from New Jersey to Florida. The habitat consists of dry, sand ...

'' (J.E. Smith, 1797) – placentia tiger moth * ''

Apantesis proxima ''Apantesis proxima'', the Mexican tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Felix Guérin-Méneville in 1844. ''Apantesis proxima'' was formerly a member of the genus ''Notarctia'', w ...

'' (Guérin-Méneville, 844 – Mexican tiger moth * ''

Apantesis quenseli ''Apantesis quenseli'', the Labrador tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. In Central Europe the species is found in the Central Alps at altitudes of . They are also present in Northern Scandinavia. It is widely distributed in Polar Eura ...

'' (Paykull, 1793) * ''

Apantesis speciosa ''Apantesis speciosa'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1864. It is found from Labrador west to British Columbia and Alaska. The habitat consists of wetlands, bogs and sub-Arctic tundra. The speci ...

'' (Möschler, 1864) * ''

Apantesis ursina ''Apantesis ursina'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is found on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California and in mainland south-western California from Kern County south to San Diego Coun ...

'' Schmidt, 2009 * ''

Apantesis virgo ''Apantesis virgo'', the virgin tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. It is found in North America from Newfoundland south to Florida w ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – virgin tiger moth * ''

Apantesis virguncula ''Apantesis virguncula'', the little virgin tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by W. Kirby in 1837. It is found across most of southern Canada and the United States, from the Rocky Mountains eastward. In the north, th ...

'' (W. Kirby, 1837) – little virgin tiger moth * ''

Apantesis vittata ''Apantesis vittata'', the banded tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is found in the United States from Maryland to Florida, west to Kentucky and Louisiana. The wingspan ...

'' (Fabricius, 1787) – banded tiger moth * ''

Apantesis williamsii ''Apantesis williamsii'', or Williams' tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles R. Dodge in 1871. It is found in North America from the Northwest Territories east to the northern Great Lakes region, New Brunswick ...

'' (Dodge, 1871) – Williams' tiger moth * ''

Apantesis yavapai ''Apantesis yavapai'' is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is only found in the San Francisco volcanic field in Coconino County, Arizona. The length of the forewings is 14.4 mm. Adults have been reco ...

'' Schmidt, 2009 * ''

Apantesis yukona ''Apantesis yukona'' is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is found in Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's t ...

'' Schmidt, 2009 Arge Moth 3779

References

Arctiina Moth genera {{Arctiina-stub