''Arctia'' is a

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of tiger moths in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. Therein, it belongs to the

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Arctiina The Arctiina are a subtribe of moths in the family Erebidae. Taxonomy The subtribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the tribe Arctiini, within the lichen and tiger moth family Arctiidae. The ranks of the family and its subdivisio ...

in the

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Arctiini __NOTOC__ The Arctiini are a tribe of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. Systematics The tribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the subfamily Arctiinae, within the lichen and tiger moth family, Arctiidae. The ranks of the fami ...

in the

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Arctiinae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

. Species are well distributed throughout North America, Palearctic, India, and Sri Lanka. As a result of phylogenetic studies by Rönkä et al. in 2016, the following genera were determined to be synonyms with ''Arctia'', and their species were reclassified in this genus. :''Acerbia'' :''Ammobiota'' :''Atlantarctia'' :''Borearctia'' :''Callarctia'' :''Chionophila'' :''Eupsychoma'' :''Gonerda'' :''Nemeophila'' :''Oroncus'' :''Pararctia'' :''Platarctia'' :''Platyprepia'' :''Preparctia'' :''Sinoarctia''

Description

Palpi porrect (extending forward), reaching beyond the frons where the first two joints are hairy. Antennae bipectinated in male, with short branches swollen at extremity, and with a terminal bristle, whereas female has serrate. Legs hairy with hind tibia bears two spur pairs. Forewings rather short and broad.

Species

These species belong to the genus ''Arctia'': : ''

Arctia allardi ''Arctia allardi'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1911. It is found in China (Sichuan, Qinghai, and eastern Tibet). The species of the genus ''Preparctia '', including this one, were moved to ''Arctia ...

'' (Oberthür, 1911) : ''

Arctia alpina ''Arctia alpina'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia, high mountains of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia; also in Alaska and northwestern Canada. Its wingspan is 42–50 mm. The l ...

'' (Quensel, 1802) : ''

Arctia aulica ''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 su ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Lady-in-Waiting : '' Arctia brachyptera'' (Troubridge & Lafontaine, 1999) Kluane Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia buddenbrocki ''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 Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part ...

'' (Kotzsch, 1929) : ''

Arctia bundeli ''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 (the southwestern Pamirs)., 2004"New Arctiinae species from Azad Kashmir, Pakistan ...

'' (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2004) : ''

Arctia caja The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth (''Arctia caja'') is a moth of the family Erebidae. ''Arctia caja'' is a northern species found in the US, Canada, and Europe. The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as the larvae ove ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Garden Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia churkini ''Arctia churkini'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Witt in 2003 and is endemic to Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrg ...

'' (Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Witt, 2003) : ''

Arctia confluens ''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 The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfam ...

'' (Romanoff, 1884) : ''

Arctia cornuta ''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 Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; ru ...

'' (Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Witt, 2004 2004: ''Acerbia cornuta'' spec. nov. and ''Acerbia seitzi micropuncta'' subspec. nov. from Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Atalanta'' 35 (3/4): 415-425.)) : ''

Arctia cupido ''Arctia cupido'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Yasunori Kishida in 1995. It is found in Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, स� ...

'' (Kishida, 1995) : ''

Arctia dejeani ''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. The wingspan is 41–42 mm. The larvae feed on ''Taraxacum'' and ''Plantago'' species. ...

'' (Godart, 1822) : ''

Arctia dido ''Arctia dido'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by M. Wagner in 1841. It is found in Algeria. The larvae feed on ''Taraxacum ''Taraxacum'' () is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists ...

'' (Wagner, 1841) : ''

Arctia elisabethae ''Arctia elisabethae'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Kotzsch in 1939. It is found in the Hindu Kush The Hindu Kush is an mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches fr ...

'' (Kotzsch, 1939) : ''

Arctia festiva ''Arctia festiva'', the hebe tiger moth, is a moth species of the family Erebidae. Some authors have separated it in a monotypic genus ''Eucharia''. It is found in Central and Southern Europe, Near East, Iran, Central Asia, European Russia, South ...

'' (Hufnagel, 1766) Hebe Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia flavia ''Arctia flavia'', the yellow tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johann Kaspar Füssli in 1779. It is found in the Alps above the tree level. It also occurs in Balkan mountains (Rila), European Russ ...

'' (Fuessly, 1779) : ''

Arctia forsteri ''Arctia forsteri'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1943. It is found in Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also ref ...

'' (Daniel, 1943) : ''

Arctia gurkoi ''Arctia gurkoi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 2004. It is found in Pakistan (Azad Kashmir) and possibly Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerl ...

'' (Dubatolov, 2004) : ''

Arctia hannyngtoni ''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 Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democrat ...

'' (Hampson, 1910) : ''

Arctia intercalaris ''Arctia intercalaris'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in Dzhungarian Alatau, Zailiiskii Alatau, Tien Shan, Alai-Pamirs, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, the mountains of A ...

'' (Eversmann, 1843) : ''

Arctia kasnakovi ''Arctia kasnakovi'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 1987. It is found in Qinghai, China. The species of the genus ''Sinoarctia'', including this one, were moved to ''Arctia'' as a result ...

'' (Dubatolov, 1987) : '' Arctia khumbeli'' (Bang-Haas, 1927) : '' Arctia kolpakofskii'' (Alpheraky, 1882) : '' Arctia ladakensis'' (Bang-Haas, 1927) : ''

Arctia lapponica ''Arctia lapponica'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1791. It is found in northern Eurasia and the Arctic part of North America. The wingspan is 37–45 mm. The larvae feed on ''Betula nana'', ...

'' (Thunberg, 1791) Lapland Tiger Moth : '' Arctia marchandi'' (de Freina, 1983) : '' Arctia martinhoneyi'' (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2005) : '' Arctia matronula'' (Linnaeus, 1758) : '' Arctia menetriesii'' (Eversmann, 1846) : '' Arctia mirifica'' (Oberthur, 1892) : '' Arctia murzini'' (Dubatolov, 2005) : '' Arctia oberthueri'' (Oberthür, 1890) : '' Arctia olschwangi'' (Dubatolov, 1990) : '' Arctia opulenta'' (Edwards, 1881) Opulent Tiger Moth : '' Arctia ornata'' (Staudinger, 1896) : '' Arctia parthenos'' (Harris, 1850) St. Lawrence Tiger Moth : '' Arctia perornata'' (Moore, 1879) : '' Arctia plantaginis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Wood Tiger : '' Arctia romanovi'' (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) : '' Arctia rueckbeili'' (Pungeler, 1901) : ''

Arctia seitzi ''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 Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country ...

'' (Bang-Haas, 1910) : '' Arctia sieversi'' (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) : '' Arctia souliei'' (Oberthur, 1903) : '' Arctia subnebulosa'' (Dyar, 1899) : ''

Arctia tancrei ''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. This species, along with the others of the genus ''Oroncus'', was moved to ...

'' (Staudinger, 1887) : ''

Arctia testudinaria ''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 h ...

'' (Geoffroy, 1785) Patton's Tiger : ''

Arctia thibetica ''Arctia thibetica'' is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae, found in the northwestern Himalayas of India. References Arctiina {{arctiina-stub ...

'' (Felder, 1874) : '' Arctia tigrina'' (Villers, 1789) : ''

Arctia tundrana ''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. ...

'' (Tshistjakov, 1990) : '' Arctia ungemachi'' (Le Cerf, 1924) : ''

Arctia villica ''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 southe ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Cream-spot Tiger : '' Arctia virginalis'' (Boisduval, 1852) Ranchman's Tiger Moth : ''

Arctia weigerti ''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). This species, along with the others of the genus ''Oroncus'', was moved to ...

'' (de Freina & Witt, 1985) : ''

Arctia yarrowii ''Arctia yarrowii'', or Yarrow's tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Richard Harper Stretch in 1874. It is found in North America from Hudson Bay to British Columbia and northern Arizona. The habitat consists of ba ...

'' (Stretch, 1874) Mountain Tiger Moth

References

* * Arctiina Moth genera {{Arctiina-stub