Argina

Short description: Genus of moths

Argina

Mounted Argina amanda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Subfamily:  | Arctiinae
Subtribe:  | Nyctemerina
Genus:  | Argina
Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms

* Alytarchia Wallengren, 1863
* Alytarchia Wallengren, 1865
* Xanthesthes Rambur, 1866
* Lomaspilis Felder, 1874

Argina is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.[1] They are distributed throughout Africa, Mauritius, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, New Guinea and Australia.

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Taxonomy
* 3 Species
* 4 Former species
* 5 References

## Description

Palpi upturned, reaching the vertex of head with short third joint. Antennae ciliated in both sexes. Mid and hind tibia with minute terminal spur pairs. Hindwing of male with a fold on inner margin containing a glandular patch near the base, with a tuft of long hair beyond it. The anal angle produced to a point. Forewing with veins 3 to 5 from close to angle of cell. Vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 7 and 10 from a long areole formed by the anastomosis of vein 8 and 9. Hindwing with veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. Vein 8 from middle of cell.[2]

## Taxonomy

Not long ago it was divided into three genera: Argina (A. cribraria), Alytarchia (A. amanda, A. leonina), Mangina (M. argus, M. syringa, M. pulchra).

## Species

The genus includes the following species:

* Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847)
* Argina argus (Kollar, [1847])
* Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)
* Argina leonina (Walker, [1865])
* Argina pantheraria (Felder, 1874)

## Former species

For Argina argus, the new genus Mangina Kaleka & Kirti, 2001 was described. This genus also contains (Dubatolov, 2010):

* Mangina syringa (Cramer, 1775)
* Mangina pulchra (C. Swinhoe, 1892)

## References

1. ↑ Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Argina Hübner, 1819". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=2617.0. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
2. ↑ 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

* Dubatolov, V. V. (2010). Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten. Marktleuthen. 65: 1–106.
* Kaleka, A.S. & Kirti J.S. (2001) A new genus Mangina along with the taxonomy of Argina Hubner (Arctiinae: Arctiidae: Lepidoptera). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 98 (2): 250–253.

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