Arctia elisabethae

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Arctia elisabethae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. elisabethae
Binomial name
Arctia elisabethae
(Kotzsch, 1939)
Synonyms
  • Oroncus elisabethae(Kotzsch, 1938)
  • Micrarctia elisabethaeKotzsch, 1938
  • Phragmatobia elisabethae

Arctia elisabethae is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Kotzsch in 1939. It is found in the Hindu Kush mountain range. [1]

The species of the genus Oroncus, including this one, were moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016. [2]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Phragmatobia elisabethae". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  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). doi: 10.1111/syen.12194 .