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.
| Arctia | |
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| Arctia caja imago | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Arctiina |
| Genus: | Arctia Schrank, 1802 |
| Synonyms | |
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Ammobiota Wallengren, 1885 | |
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
editPalpi 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
editThese 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
edit- ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Arctia Schrank, 1802". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
- ^ a b 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. hdl:10138/176841.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ "Arctia". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ 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.)