''Arctia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

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

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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

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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

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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 ''Arctia allardi'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür (entomologist), Charles Oberthür in 1911. It is found in China (Sichuan, Qinghai, and eastern Tibet). The species of the genus ''Preparctia '', including ...

'' (Oberthür, 1911) : ''

Arctia alpina ''Arctia alpina'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia, high mountains of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia; also in Alaska and northwestern Canada. Its wingspan is 42–50 mm. The l ...

'' (Quensel, 1802) : '' Arctia aulica'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Lady-in-Waiting : ''

Arctia brachyptera ''Arctia brachyptera'', the Kluane tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by James T. Troubridge and J. Donald Lafontaine in 2000 and is only known from the Yukon in Canada. It occurs in alpine tundra of the Saint Elias Mo ...

'' (Troubridge & Lafontaine, 1999) Kluane Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia buddenbrocki ''Arctia buddenbrocki'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Kotzsch in 1929. It is found in Gansu and southern Shaanxi, both in China. The species of the genus ''Preparctia'', including this one, were moved to ''Arctia ...

'' (Kotzsch, 1929) : '' Arctia bundeli'' (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2004) : ''

Arctia caja The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth (''Arctia caja'') is a moth of the family Erebidae. ''Arctia caja'' is a northern species found in the United States, US, Canada, and Europe. The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Garden Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia churkini ''Arctia churkini'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Witt in 2003 and is endemic to Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the ...

'' (Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Witt, 2003) : ''

Arctia confluens ''Arctia'' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. Therein, it belongs to the subtribe Arctiina in the tribe Arctiini in the subfamily Arctiinae. Species are well distributed throughout North America, Palearctic, India, and Sri Lanka. ...

'' (Romanoff, 1884) : ''

Arctia cornuta ''Arctia cornuta'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Witt in 2004. It is found in the Turkestan Mountains at the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlo ...

'' (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 ''Arctia cupido'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Yasunori Kishida in 1995. It is found in Nepal. The species of the genus ''Preparctia'', including this one, were moved to ''Arctia ''Arctia'' is a genus of tiger moths ...

'' (Kishida, 1995) : ''

Arctia dejeani ''Arctia dejeani'' is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Jean Baptiste Godart in 1822. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula. The wingspan is 41–42 mm. The larvae feed on ''Taraxacum'' and ''Plantago'' species. ...

'' (Godart, 1822) : ''

Arctia dido ''Arctia dido'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by M. Wagner in 1841. It is found in Algeria. The larvae feed on ''Taraxacum'' species. This species, along with the others of the genus ''Atlantarctia'', was moved to ''Arctia ...

'' (Wagner, 1841) : ''

Arctia elisabethae ''Arctia elisabethae'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Kotzsch in 1939. It is found in the Hindu Kush mountain range. The species of the genus ''Oroncus'', including this one, were moved to ''Arctia ''Arctia'' is a ...

'' (Kotzsch, 1939) : ''

Arctia festiva ''Arctia festiva'', the hebe tiger moth, is a moth species of the family Erebidae. Some authors have separated it in a monotypic genus ''Eucharia''. It is found in Central and Southern Europe, Near East, Iran, Central Asia, European Russia, South ...

'' (Hufnagel, 1766) Hebe Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia flavia ''Arctia flavia'', the yellow tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johann Kaspar Füssli in 1779. It is found in the Alps above the tree level. It also occurs in Balkan mountains (Rila), European Russ ...

'' (Fuessly, 1779) : ''

Arctia forsteri ''Arctia forsteri'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1943. It is found in Sichuan, China. The species of the genus ''Sinoarctia '', including this one, were moved to ''Arctia ''Arctia'' is a genus of tige ...

'' (Daniel, 1943) : ''

Arctia gurkoi ''Arctia'' is a genus of Arctiinae (moth), tiger moths in the family Erebidae. Therein, it belongs to the subtribe Arctiina in the tribe (biology), tribe Arctiini (erebid moths), Arctiini in the subfamily Arctiinae. Species are well distributed t ...

'' (Dubatolov, 2004) : ''

Arctia hannyngtoni ''Arctia hannyngtoni'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1910. It is found in the north-western Himalayas and Nepal. The species of the genus ''Preparctia'', including this one, were moved to ''Arctia ''A ...

'' (Hampson, 1910) : ''

Arctia intercalaris ''Arctia intercalaris'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in Dzhungarian Alatau, Zailiiskii Alatau, Tien Shan, Alai-Pamirs, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, the mountains of ...

'' (Eversmann, 1843) : '' Arctia kasnakovi'' (Dubatolov, 1987) : ''

Arctia khumbeli ''Arctia'' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. Therein, it belongs to the subtribe Arctiina in the tribe Arctiini in the subfamily Arctiinae. Species are well distributed throughout North America, Palearctic, India, and Sri Lanka. ...

'' (Bang-Haas, 1927) : ''

Arctia kolpakofskii ''Arctia kolpakofskii'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Sergei Alphéraky in 1882. It is found in eastern Tien Shan in Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously ...

'' (Alpheraky, 1882) : ''

Arctia ladakensis ''Arctia ladakensis'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Otto Bang-Haas in 1927. It is found in Tibet and Xinjiang in China. This species, along with the others of the genus ''Oroncus'', was moved to ''Arctia ''Arctia'' is ...

'' (Bang-Haas, 1927) : '' Arctia lapponica'' (Thunberg, 1791) Lapland Tiger Moth : '' Arctia marchandi'' (de Freina, 1983) : ''

Arctia martinhoneyi ''Arctia'' is a genus of Arctiinae (moth), tiger moths in the family Erebidae. Therein, it belongs to the subtribe Arctiina in the tribe (biology), tribe Arctiini (erebid moths), Arctiini in the subfamily Arctiinae. Species are well distributed t ...

'' (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2005) : ''

Arctia matronula ''Arctia matronula'' is species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. It can be found in central and eastern Europe, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia, northern ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) : ''

Arctia menetriesii ''Arctia menetriesii'', the Menetries' tiger moth, is a species of Arctiinae (erebid moths), tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was Species description, first described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1846. It is found in Karelia, Oktyabrskoe ...

'' (Eversmann, 1846) : '' Arctia mirifica'' (Oberthur, 1892) : '' Arctia murzini'' (Dubatolov, 2005) : ''

Arctia oberthueri ''Arctia oberthueri'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1890. It is found in Algeria and Tunisia. This species, along with the others of the genus ''Atlantarctia'', was moved to ''Arctia ''Arctia'' i ...

'' (Oberthür, 1890) : '' Arctia olschwangi'' (Dubatolov, 1990) : '' Arctia opulenta'' (Edwards, 1881) Opulent Tiger Moth : '' Arctia ornata'' (Staudinger, 1896) : ''

Arctia parthenos ''Arctia parthenos'', the St. Lawrence tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1850. It is found in boreal North America, ranging from Alaska to Labrador, south to New Mexico and Arizona in th ...

'' (Harris, 1850) St. Lawrence Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia perornata ''Arctia'' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. Therein, it belongs to the subtribe Arctiina in the tribe Arctiini in the subfamily Arctiinae. Species are well distributed throughout North America, Palearctic, India, and Sri Lanka. ...

'' (Moore, 1879) : ''

Arctia plantaginis ''Arctia plantaginis'', the wood tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. Several subspecies are found in the Holarctic ecozone south to Anatolia, Transcaucasus, northern Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan. One subspecies is endem ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Wood Tiger : '' Arctia romanovi'' (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) : '' Arctia rueckbeili'' (Pungeler, 1901) : '' Arctia seitzi'' (Bang-Haas, 1910) : ''

Arctia sieversi ''Arctia sieversi'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Grigory Grum-Grshimailo in 1891. It is found in Qinghai, China. This species, along with the others of the genus ''Sinoarctia'', was moved to ''Arctia ''Arctia'' is a g ...

'' (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) : ''

Arctia souliei ''Arctia souliei'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1903. It is found in Tibet and Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between ...

'' (Oberthur, 1903) : '' Arctia subnebulosa'' (Dyar, 1899) : '' Arctia tancrei'' (Staudinger, 1887) : ''

Arctia testudinaria ''Arctia testudinaria'', or Patton's tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Geoffroy in 1785. It is found from northern Spain to southern and central France and southern Switzerland to north-eastern and southern Italy. It h ...

'' (Geoffroy, 1785) Patton's Tiger : ''

Arctia thibetica ''Arctia thibetica'' is a species of tiger moth 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 ...

'' (Felder, 1874) : '' Arctia tigrina'' (Villers, 1789) : '' Arctia tundrana'' (Tshistjakov, 1990) : ''

Arctia ungemachi ''Arctia ungemachi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Ferdinand Le Cerf in 1924 and is named after Henri Ungemach. It is found in Morocco. The larvae feed on ''Taraxacum'' and ''Plantago'' species. This species, along with ...

'' (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 ''Arctia weigerti'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Josef J. de Freina and Thomas Joseph Witt in 1985. It is found in northern Pakistan (Karakorum). This species, along with the others of the genus ''Oroncus'', was moved to ...

'' (de Freina & Witt, 1985) : '' Arctia yarrowii'' (Stretch, 1874) Mountain Tiger Moth

References

* * Arctiina Moth genera {{Arctiina-stub