Arctia weigerti

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Arctia weigerti
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. weigerti
Binomial name
Arctia weigerti
de Freina & Witt, 1985
Synonyms
  • Oroncus weigerti(de Freina & Witt, 1985)

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). [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]

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

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.

Arctia churkini is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Witt in 2003 and is endemic to Kyrgyzstan.

Arctia cornuta is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Witt in 2004. It is found in the Turkestan Mountains at the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border.

Arctia seitzi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Andreas Bang-Haas in 1910. It is found in central Asia, including Kazakhstan and Kirghizia.

Arctia dido is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by M. Wagner in 1841. It is found in Algeria.

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

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. The habitat consists of grasslands, slopes, forest edges, clear dry forests, cliffs and mountain slopes, maquis, garigues and dry meadows.

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

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Oroncus weigerti (de Freina & Witt, 1985)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  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 .