Apantesis is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. They are found in North and Central America.
Apantesis virgo, the virgin tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in North America from Newfoundland south to Florida west to Alberta.
Apantesis allectans is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Douglas C. Ferguson in 1985. It is found in the Mexican states of Durango and Sonora and the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona in the United States. The habitat consists of open montane pine forests.
Apantesis behrii is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Stretch in 1872. It is found from Oregon south to California. It is most common in the Siskiyou and Sierra Nevada ranges. The habitat consists of dry lithosol flood plains and balds in the mountains.
Apantesis doris, the Doris tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1869. It is found in North America from British Columbia, northern Idaho, Alberta and western Montana. In the east, it is found in the Atlantic Coast provinces and from Nova Scotia to northern Florida and west to central Texas. The habitat consists of open willow/sedge fens and probably other open wetlands in the boreal forest.
Apantesis elongata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Stretch in 1885. It is found in south-western British Columbia and west-central Alberta, south to Montana and Washington. It has also been recorded from north-eastern Oregon. The habitat consists of dry, montane, and subalpine meadows.
Apantesis figurata, the figured tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America from southern Ontario and New Hampshire south to Georgia and west to Colorado and Texas.
Apantesis f-pallida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Strecker in 1878. It is found from south-eastern Utah and Colorado south to eastern Arizona, New Mexico and eastern Texas. It has also been recorded from west-central Nevada, and probably also occurs in Mexico.
Apantesis franconia is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1888. It is found in northeastern North America. The habitat consists of dry, rocky, or sandy areas, including pine barrens.
Apantesis incorrupta is an arctiine moth in the family Erebidae, described by Henry Edwards in 1881. It is found from southern Colorado and south-eastern Kansas south through Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas into Mexico and west to south-eastern California. The habitat consists of grasslands and open woodlands.
Apantesis kodara is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and B. Christian Schmidt in 2005. It is found in the Kodar Mountains in Chita Province, Russia.
Apantesis margo is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is found in grassland and transitional habitats on the northern Great Plains and Southern Rocky Mountain Front ranges, south to east-central Arizona.
Apantesis obliterata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Richard Harper Stretch in 1885. It is found in Russia, Mongolia and North America. The habitat consists of grasslands.
Apantesis ornata, the ornate tiger moth or achaia moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864. It is found in western North America from southern British Columbia through the Pacific Northwest to southern California, northern Utah, and western Wyoming and Montana. It is found in a wide range of habitats, including open woodland.
Apantesis phyllira, the phyllira tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America from Quebec and New England south to Florida and west to Texas, Colorado and Alberta. The habitat consists of dry, open woodland and grassland. The species is listed as endangered in Connecticut.
Apantesis speciosa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1864. It is found from Labrador west to British Columbia and Alaska. The habitat consists of wetlands, bogs and sub-Arctic tundra. The species is listed as endangered in Connecticut.
Apantesis virguncula, the little virgin tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by W. Kirby in 1837. It is found across most of southern Canada and the United States, from the Rocky Mountains eastward. In the north, the range extends to northern Alberta and Newfoundland. In the south, it occurs along the Rocky Mountain to Apache County in Arizona and New Jersey in the east. It occurs in a variety of open wooded habitats, ranging from marshes, fens and bogs to transition parkland and prairie.
Apantesis williamsii, or Williams' tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles R. Dodge in 1871. It is found in North America from the Northwest Territories east to the northern Great Lakes region, New Brunswick and New England. It also occurs throughout the northern Great Plains, south at higher elevations to Arizona and New Mexico, west to south-eastern British Columbia and eastern California.
Apantesis yukona is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. It is found in Yukon. The habitat consists of dry, rocky or eroding south-facing slopes.
Apantesis arizoniensis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Robert Harper Stretch (1837–1926) in 1874. It is found from the southwestern United States to Colombia. In the United States, it has been recorded from California, east to western Texas and north to western Colorado and western Wyoming.
