Arctia

Arctia
	Arctia caja imago
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Arctiina
Genus:	Arctia; Schrank, 1802
Synonyms
	Ammobiota Wallengren, 1885; Eucharia Hübner, [1820] (disputed)

Short description: Genus of moths

Arctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.^[1] 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.

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Species

These species belong to the genus Arctia:^[2]^[4]^[5]

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^[6])

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 (Boisduval, 1852) Ranchman's Tiger Moth

Arctia weigerti (de Freina & Witt, 1985)

Arctia yarrowii (Stretch, 1874) Mountain Tiger Moth

References

↑ Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Arctia Schrank, 1802". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=2529.0. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194.
↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up.
↑ "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi.
↑ "Arctia". https://www.gbif.org/species/5115807.
↑ Saldaitis, A. , P. Ivinskis & T.J. Witt 2004: Acerbia cornuta spec. nov. and Acerbia seitzi micropuncta subspec. nov. from Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 35 (3/4): 415-425.)

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[1] Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Arctia Schrank, 1802". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=2529.0. Retrieved October 14, 2020.

[Rönkä2016-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up.

[ncbi-4] "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi.

[gbif-5] "Arctia". https://www.gbif.org/species/5115807.

[6] Saldaitis, A. , P. Ivinskis & T.J. Witt 2004: Acerbia cornuta spec. nov. and Acerbia seitzi micropuncta subspec. nov. from Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 35 (3/4): 415-425.)

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Arctia

Arctia caja imago
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Arctiina
Genus:	Arctia Schrank, 1802
Synonyms
Ammobiota Wallengren, 1885 Eucharia Hübner, [1820] (disputed)

Arctia

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