| Arctia | |
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| 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  | |
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". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
 - 1 2 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 – 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.)
 
