Arctia testudinaria

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Patton's tiger
Hyphoraia testudinaria male.jpg
Male - Bolzano, Italy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. testudinaria
Binomial name
Arctia testudinaria
(Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
Synonyms
  • Hyphoraia testudinaria(Geoffroy, 1785)
  • Phalaena testudinariaGeoffroy, 1785
  • Bombyx maculaniaLang, 1789
  • Phalaena curialisEsper, 1789
  • Bombyx civicaHübner, 1790
  • Arctia maculataCaradja, 1893
  • Arctia testudinaria f. croceaSchultz, 1908
  • Hyphoraia meridialpinaDaniel, 1939

Arctia testudinaria, or Patton's tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Geoffroy in 1785. It is found from northern Spain to southern and central France and southern Switzerland to north-eastern and southern Italy. It has also been recorded from Great Britain. [1] The habitat consists of grasslands, slopes, forest edges, clear dry forests, cliffs and mountain slopes, maquis, garrigues and dry meadows. [2]

The wingspan is 35–45 mm. [3] Adults are on wing in May and July.

The larvae feed on various low-growing plants, including Plantago , Rumex , Achillea , Euphorbia cyparissias , Potentilla , Hieracium , Taraxacum , Cynoglossum , Deschampsia , Calamagrostis . [4] The species overwinters in the larval stage. Pupation often takes place under flat stones.

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. [5]

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<i>Arctia</i> Genus of moths

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<i>Arctia menetriesii</i> Genus of moths

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<i>Arctia villica</i> Species of moth

Arctia villica, the cream-spot tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed from the Iberian Peninsula across western and southern Europe, Anatolia, western and northern Iran, western Siberia, southwestern Asia and North Africa.

<i>Arctia matronula</i> Moth genus and species

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.

<i>Arctia virginalis</i> Genus of moths

Arctia virginalis, the Ranchman's tiger moth, is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852.

<i>Arctia tigrina</i> Species of moth

Arctia tigrina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula and the South of France and Italy.

<i>Arctia aulica</i> Species of moth

Arctia aulica, the brown tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the temperate areas of central Europe up to the area surrounding the Amur River to the east and up to the Balkans and the Black Sea to the south.

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 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.

Arctia murzini is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 2005. It is found in Shaanxi, China.

<i>Arctia parthenos</i> Species of moth

Arctia parthenos, the St. Lawrence tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1850. It is found in boreal North America, ranging from Alaska to Labrador, south to New Mexico and Arizona in the Rocky Mountains and to North Carolina in the Appalachian Mountains. The habitat consists of riparian areas and mixed hardwood-conifer forests at middle to high elevations.

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.

References

  1. ↑ Patton's tiger on UKMoths
  2. ↑ Lepidoptera and Their Ecology
  3. ↑ Hants Moths
  4. ↑ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
  5. ↑ 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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