Radiarctia

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Radiarctia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Subtribe: Spilosomina
Genus: Radiarctia
Dubatolov, 2006
Type species
Diacrisia jacksoni
Rothschild, 1910

Radiarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from Afrotropics.

Species

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