''Ischnarctia'' is a genus of
tiger moth
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s in the family
Erebidae
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erected by German
entomologist
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Max Bartel
Max Bartel (1879 – 2 July 1914, Nürnberg) was a German entomologist, who erected the Ischnarctia genus in 1903.
Bartel was an insect dealer (Insektenhändler) in Berlin. He specialised in Lepidoptera. He edited ''Die palaearktischen Grosssch ...
in 1903.
Species
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Ischnarctia brunnescens''
Bartel, 1903
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Ischnarctia cinerea''
(Pagenstecher, 1903)
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Ischnarctia oberthueri''
(Rothschild, 1910)
References
External links
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Nyctemerina
Moth genera
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