The Arctiinae are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths, which usually have bright colours, footmen, which are usually much drabber, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms. The scientific name Arctiinae refers to this hairiness. Some species within the Arctiinae have the word "tussock"' in their common names because they have been misidentified as members of the Lymantriinae subfamily based on the characteristics of the larvae.
The Arctiini are a tribe of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.
Agrisius is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae.
Amerila is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae.
Arctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. Therein, it belongs to the subtribe Arctiina in the tribe Arctiini in the subfamily Arctiinae. Species are well distributed throughout North America, Palearctic, India, and Sri Lanka.
Creatonotos is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics, South and East Asia, Sundaland and Australia.
Nudaria is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae erected by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809.
Spilarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875.
The Museum Witt Munich (MWM) is a department of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology. The former independent museum was located in Munich, Germany, and had the world's leading collection of certain moths. The museum was closed in 2023. The entire collection was handed over to the Bavarian State Collection.
Hervé de Toulgoët was a French entomologist. He specialised in moths of the families Arctiidae and Zygaenidae. He also studied the beetle genus Carabus. He was written about by Paul Thiaucourt and Jocelyne Navatte.
Olepa ricini is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. An older treatment placed the species in the genus Pericallia.
Olepa toulgoeti is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in southern India.
Olepa koslandana is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Olepa anomi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Olepa duboisi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Olepa kakatii is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 2000. It is found in north-eastern India and Assam.
Olepa ocellifera is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Eyralpenus meinhofi is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the family Erebidae first described by Max Bartel in 1903. It is known from the east and central Africa: Tanzania, Zambia, Zambia, Angola, Zaire ; Malawi ; Zaire ; Zimbabwe.
Amerila eugenia is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. It is found in China, Pakistan (Karachi), central and southern India and Sri-Lanka.
Vladimir Viktorovich Dubatolov is a Russian entomologist, lepidopterist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, full member of the Russian Entomological Society, member of the European Lepidopterological Society, curator of the insect collection of the Siberian Zoological Museum, leading researcher at the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS (Novosibirsk), leading researcher of the Zapovednoye Priamurye. He has described a number of zoological taxa. The names of these taxa are accompanied by the author abbreviation "Dubatolov".
