''Radiarctia'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s 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 ...
from
Afrotropics
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...
.
Species
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Radiarctia jacksoni
''Radiarctia jacksoni'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Zaire and Tanzania.
The larvae feed on '' Commelina'', ''Aster'', ''Bidens pilosa'', '' Galimsoga parviflora' ...
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(Rothschild, 1910)
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Radiarctia screabile
''Radiarctia screabile'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Wallengren in 1875. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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(Wallengren, 1875)
** ''Radiarctia screabile nyangana''
Haynes, 2011
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Radiarctia melanochoria
''Radiarctia melanochoria'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Erich Hering in 1932. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in t ...
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(Hering, 1932)
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Radiarctia sinefascia
''Radiarctia'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from Afrotropics
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, an ...
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(Hampson, 1916)
References
* , 2006: New genera and species of Arctiinae from the Afrotropical fauna (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Nachrichten des entomologische Vereins Apollo'' 27 (3): 139-152.
* , 2011: A review of some of the ''Binna''-like species of Afrotropical ''Spilosoma'' Curtis (1825) listed by Goodger & Watson (1995) and including the genus ''Radiarctia'' Dubatolov (2006) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Arctiinae). ''Zootaxa'' 2811: 22-36.
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Spilosomina
Noctuoidea genera
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