Arctia tancrei

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Arctia tancrei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. tancrei
Binomial name
Arctia tancrei
Staudinger, 1887
Synonyms
  • Oroncus tancrei(Staudinger, 1887)
  • Phragmatobia uraniaPüngeler, 1904
  • Oroncus tancrei urania
  • Oroncus alaicaO. Bang-Haas, 1927
  • Oroncus fasciataO. Bang-Haas, 1927

Arctia tancrei is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Staudinger in 1887. It is found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. [1]

This species, along with the others of the genus Oroncus, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016. [2]

Subspecies

References

  1. Checklist of Arctiidae of the Palaearctic region
  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 .