Arctia

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Arctia
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Arctia caja imago
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Subtribe: Arctiina
Genus: Arctia
Schrank, 1802
Synonyms

AmmobiotaWallengren, 1885
EuchariaHübner, [1820] (disputed)

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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

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Arctia alpina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia, high mountains of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia; also in Alaska and northwestern Canada.

Arctia churkini is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Witt in 2003 and is endemic to Kyrgyzstan.

Arctia cornuta is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Witt in 2004. It is found in the Turkestan Mountains at the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border.

Arctia seitzi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Andreas Bang-Haas in 1910. It is found in central Asia, including Kazakhstan and Kirghizia.

Arctia ornata is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1896. It is found in the Russian Far East and Mongolia.

Chelis ammosovi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Vladimir O. Gurko in 2002. It is found in Sichuan, China.

Chelis glaphyra is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in eastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the central Tien Shan and China (Xinjiang).

Chelis golbecki is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 1996. It is found in the Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range of Central Asia.

Chelis gracilis is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 1996. It is found in the Chatkal Mountains and Kyrgyzstan.

Chelis gratiosa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Grigory Grum-Grshimailo in 1890. It is found in the western Tien Shan, the Pamir-Alay, Kyrgyzstan, Turkestan, Hissar, Trans-Alai, the Pamir Mountains, Pakistan, Kashmir and western China.

Chelis marxi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Otto Bang-Haas in 1927. It is found in Himachal Pradesh, India.

Chelis mira is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Yuri A. Tshistjakov in 1989. It is found in the south-eastern Altai Mountains.

Chelis rasa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Churkin in 2000. It is found in China.

Chelis turkestana is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 1996. It is found in the Turkestan Range in Central Asia.

Chelis kashmirica is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was formerly a member of the genus Palearctia.

References

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  2. 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 .
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  6. Saldaitis, A. , P. Ivinskis & T.J. Witt 2004: Acerbia cornuta spec. nov. and Acerbia seitzi micropuncta subspec. nov. from Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta35 (3/4): 415-425.)