''Arctia'' is a
genus
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of
tiger moths in the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), 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 groups. The family includes the underwin ...
. Therein, it belongs to the
subtribe
Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants). The first use of this word dates back to the late 19th century. An example of ...
Arctiina
The Arctiina are a subtribe of moths in the family Erebidae.
Taxonomy
The subtribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the tribe Arctiini, within the lichen and tiger moth family Arctiidae. The ranks of the family and its subdivisio ...
in the
tribe
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Arctiini
The Arctiini are a tribe (biology), tribe of Arctiinae (moth), tiger moths in the family Erebidae.
Systematics
The tribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the subfamily Arctiinae, within the lichen and tiger moth family, Arctiida ...
in the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
Arctiinae
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...
. Species are well distributed throughout North America, Palearctic, India, and Sri Lanka.
As a result of phylogenetic studies by Rönkä et al. in 2016, the following genera were determined to be synonyms with ''Arctia'', and their species were reclassified in this genus.
[
:''Acerbia''
:''Ammobiota''
:''Atlantarctia''
:''Borearctia''
:''Callarctia''
:''Chionophila''
:''Eupsychoma''
:''Gonerda''
:''Nemeophila''
:''Oroncus''
:''Pararctia''
:''Platarctia''
:''Platyprepia''
:''Preparctia''
:''Sinoarctia''
]
Description
Palpi porrect (extending forward), reaching beyond the frons where the first two joints are hairy. Antennae bipectinated in male, with short branches swollen at extremity, and with a terminal bristle, whereas female has serrate. Legs hairy with hind tibia bears two spur pairs. Forewings rather short and broad.
Species
These species belong to the genus ''Arctia'':[
: '' Arctia allardi'' (Oberthür, 1911)
: '' Arctia alpina'' (Quensel, 1802)
: '' Arctia aulica'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Lady-in-Waiting
: '' Arctia brachyptera'' (Troubridge & Lafontaine, 1999) Kluane Tiger Moth
: '' Arctia buddenbrocki'' (Kotzsch, 1929)
: '' Arctia bundeli'' (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2004)
: '' Arctia caja'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Garden Tiger Moth
: '' Arctia churkini'' (Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Witt, 2003)
: '' Arctia confluens'' (Romanoff, 1884)
: '' Arctia cornuta'' (Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Witt, 2004][ 2004: ''Acerbia cornuta'' spec. nov. and ''Acerbia seitzi micropuncta'' subspec. nov. from Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Atalanta'' 35 (3/4): 415-425.)])
: '' Arctia cupido'' (Kishida, 1995)
: '' Arctia dejeani'' (Godart, 1822)
: '' Arctia dido'' (Wagner, 1841)
: '' Arctia elisabethae'' (Kotzsch, 1939)
: '' Arctia festiva'' (Hufnagel, 1766) Hebe Tiger Moth
: '' Arctia flavia'' (Fuessly, 1779)
: '' Arctia forsteri'' (Daniel, 1943)
: '' Arctia gurkoi'' (Dubatolov, 2004)
: '' Arctia hannyngtoni'' (Hampson, 1910)
: '' Arctia intercalaris'' (Eversmann, 1843)
: '' Arctia kasnakovi'' (Dubatolov, 1987)
: '' Arctia khumbeli'' (Bang-Haas, 1927)
: '' Arctia kolpakofskii'' (Alpheraky, 1882)
: '' Arctia ladakensis'' (Bang-Haas, 1927)
: '' Arctia lapponica'' (Thunberg, 1791) Lapland Tiger Moth
: '' Arctia marchandi'' (de Freina, 1983)
: '' Arctia martinhoneyi'' (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2005)
: '' Arctia matronula'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
: '' Arctia menetriesii'' (Eversmann, 1846)
: '' Arctia mirifica'' (Oberthur, 1892)
: '' Arctia murzini'' (Dubatolov, 2005)
: '' Arctia oberthueri'' (Oberthür, 1890)
: '' Arctia olschwangi'' (Dubatolov, 1990)
: '' Arctia opulenta'' (Edwards, 1881) Opulent Tiger Moth
: '' Arctia ornata'' (Staudinger, 1896)
: '' Arctia parthenos'' (Harris, 1850) St. Lawrence Tiger Moth
: '' Arctia perornata'' (Moore, 1879)
: '' Arctia plantaginis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Wood Tiger
: '' Arctia romanovi'' (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
: '' Arctia rueckbeili'' (Pungeler, 1901)
: '' Arctia seitzi'' (Bang-Haas, 1910)
: '' Arctia sieversi'' (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
: '' Arctia souliei'' (Oberthur, 1903)
: '' Arctia subnebulosa'' (Dyar, 1899)
: '' Arctia tancrei'' (Staudinger, 1887)
: '' Arctia testudinaria'' (Geoffroy, 1785) Patton's Tiger
: '' Arctia thibetica'' (Felder, 1874)
: '' Arctia tigrina'' (Villers, 1789)
: '' Arctia tundrana'' (Tshistjakov, 1990)
: '' Arctia ungemachi'' (Le Cerf, 1924)
: '' Arctia villica'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Cream-spot Tiger
: ''Arctia virginalis
''Arctia virginalis'', the Ranchman's tiger moth, is a species of Arctiinae (erebid moths), tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852.
It is found in western North America, ranging from southern ...
'' (Boisduval, 1852) Ranchman's Tiger Moth
: '' Arctia weigerti'' (de Freina & Witt, 1985)
: '' Arctia yarrowii'' (Stretch, 1874) Mountain Tiger Moth
References
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Moth genera
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