Arctia dejeani

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Arctia dejeani
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. dejeani
Binomial name
Arctia dejeani
(Godart, 1822) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hyphoraia dejeani(Godart, 1822)
  • Chelonia dejeaniGodart, 1822
  • Hyphoraia dejeani carpetanaAgenjo, 1937

Arctia dejeani is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Jean Baptiste Godart in 1822. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula.

The wingspan is 41–42 mm.

The larvae feed on Taraxacum and Plantago species. [2]

This species, along with the others of the genus Hyphoraia, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016. [3]

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Arctia ladakensis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Otto Bang-Haas in 1927. It is found in Tibet and Xinjiang in China.

Arctia weigerti is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Josef J. de Freina and Thomas Joseph Witt in 1985. It is found in northern Pakistan (Karakorum).

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Arctia allardi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1911. It is found in China.

Arctia buddenbrocki is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Kotzsch in 1929. It is found in Gansu and southern Shaanxi, both in China.

Arctia cupido is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Yasunori Kishida in 1995. It is found in Nepal.

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Arctia romanovi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Grigory Grum-Grshimailo in 1891. It is found in the north-western Chinese province of Qinghai.

Arctia forsteri is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1943. It is found in Sichuan, China.

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Savela, Markku. "Hyphoraia dejeani (Godart, 1822)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  3. 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). doi: 10.1111/syen.12194 .