Toulgarctia

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Toulgarctia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Subtribe: Spilosomina
Genus: Toulgarctia
Dubatolov & Haynes, 2008
Type species
Diacrisia madagascariensis luteoradians
Toulgoët, 1954

Toulgarctia is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae from Madagascar. The genus was erected by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Patrick G. Haynes in 2008.

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