Arctia matronula

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Arctia matronula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. matronula
Binomial name
Arctia matronula
Synonyms
  • Pericallia matronula(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Phalaena matronula
  • Pleretes matronula agassizi

Arctia is species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It can be found in central and eastern Europe, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia, northern Mongolia, Amur Region, Primorye, Sakhalin, Kunashir, northern and northeastern China, Korea and Japan. [1]

The larvae feed on Lonicera , Hieracium , Vaccinium , Fraxinus , Corylus , Quercus species and Prunus padus .

This species was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016. [2]

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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).

Arctia bundeli is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Vladimir O. Gurko in 2004. It is found in Tadjikistan.

Arctia tancrei is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Staudinger in 1887. It is found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan and China.

Arctia gurkoi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 2004. It is found in Pakistan and possibly Xinjiang, China.

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.

Arctia hannyngtoni is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1910. It is found in the north-western Himalayas and Nepal.

Arctia mirifica is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1892. It is found in western China, Tibet and north-western India.

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.

Arctia kasnakovi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 1987. It is found in Qinghai, China.

Arctia sieversi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Grigory Grum-Grshimailo in 1891. It is found in Qinghai, China.

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Pericallia Hübner, [1820]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  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 . hdl: 10138/176841 .