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The Arctiini are 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'') ...

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 family and its subdivisions were lowered in a recent reclassification while keeping the contents of the family and its subdivisions largely unchanged. These changes in rank triggered changes in the suffixes in the names. The subfamily

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 ...

as a whole was reclassified as the subfamily

within the family

. The original subfamily Arctiinae was lowered to tribe status as Arctiini, and its original tribes were lowered to subtribe status by changing the -ini suffix to -ina (e.g., Callimorphini became

Callimorphina The Callimorphina are a subtribe of woolly bear moths in the family Erebidae. The subtribe was described by Francis Walker in 1865. Many of these moths are easily confused with butterflies, being quite brightly colored and somewhat diurnal. T ...

). Thus, the name "Arctiinae" used to refer to only a subgroup of the entire group of lichen and tiger moths, but now it refers to the entire group.

Subtribes (former tribes)

Many genera in the tribe have been classified into the following subtribes, while the others are ''

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''.Lafontaine, J. D. & Fibiger, M. (2006). "Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera)". ''Canadian Entomologist''. 138: 610-635.Dubatolov, V. V. (2010). "Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov)". ''Neue Entomologische Nachrichten''. 65: 1-106. *

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 subdivision ...

Ctenuchina The Ctenuchina are a subtribe of moths in the family Erebidae. Taxonomy The Ctenuchina were previously classified as the subfamily Ctenuchinae of the family Arctiidae. That subfamily contained three tribes: Ctenuchini, Euchromiini (wasp moth ...

Euchromiina The Euchromiina are a subtribe of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1876. Many species in the subtribe are mimics of wasps. Euchromiina have always been considered closely related to the subtrib ...

* Micrarctiina *

Nyctemerina The Nyctemerina are a subtribe of woolly bear moths in the family Erebidae. Taxonomy The subtribe was previously classified as the tribe Nyctemerini of the former family Arctiidae. Some authors merge the subtribe into the related Callimorphina, ...

Pericopina The Pericopina is a subtribe of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The subtribe was described by Francis Walker in 1869. Taxonomy The subtribe was previously classified as the subfamily Pericopinae of the family Arctiidae. Selected genera ...

Phaegopterina The Phaegopterina are a subtribe of tiger moths in the tribe Arctiini, which is part of the family Erebidae. The subtribe was described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892. 469 species of Phaegopterina are present and 52 that are recently discover ...

Spilosomina The Spilosomina are a subtribe of tiger moths in the tribe Arctiini, which is part of the family Erebidae. Taxonomy The subtribe was previously classified as the tribe Spilosomini of the family Arctiidae. Genera The following genera are inclu ...

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Incertae sedis ' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...

A note by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov

Generic composition of Arctiinae have been stated in main species catalogs of this subfamily: Nearctic (Ferguson & Opler, 2006Ferguson, D. C. & Opler, P. A. (2006). "Checklist of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera: Insecta) of the continental United States and Canada". ''Zootaxa''. 1299: 1-33.), Neotropical (Watson & Goodger, 1986Watson, A. & Goodger, D. T. (1986). ''Catalogue of the Neotropical tiger-moths''. 1-71, Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London.), Eurasia (Dubatolov & de Vos, 2010), Australia (Edwards, 1996Edwards, E. D. (1996). "Arctiidae": 278-286, 368-370. ''In'': Nielsen, E.; Edwards, E.; Rangsi, T.; Edwards, E. D.; Nielsen, E. S. & Rangsi, T. V. ''Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera'' 4: xiv+529), with additions and correction
by Dubatolov
Afrotropical (Goodger & Watson, 1995 with later additions and corrections b

. Many problematic genera were placed in correct tribes or different subfamilies in these catalogs.

Some notable taxa

*'' Eupseudosoma involuta'' (Sepp, 1855) *''

Halysidota leda ''Halysidota leda'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found on Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The habitat consists of hygrophilic (moist) and mesophilic (moderate temperature) areas. The ...

'' (Druce, 1880) **'' Halysidota leda leda'' **'' Halysidota leda enricoi'' Toulgoët, 1978 *'' Halysidota schausi'' Rothschild, 1909 *''

Hypercompe icasia ''Hypercompe icasia'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is widely distributed in South America and is also found on Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Thomas an ...

'' (Cramer, 1777) *''

Opharus bimaculata ''Opharus bimaculata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hermann Dewitz in 1877. It is found in Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Venezuela and Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Re ...

'' (Dewitz, 1877) *''

Pachydota albiceps ''Pachydota albiceps'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and Martinique ...

'' (Walker, 1856) *''

Pseudamastus alsa ''Pseudamastus'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 1985. The genus contains only one species, ''Pseudamastus alsa'', first described by Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found on Dominica, Guadel ...

'' (Druce, 1890) **''

Pseudamastus alsa alsa ''Pseudamastus'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 1985. The genus contains only one species, ''Pseudamastus alsa'', first described by Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found on Dominica, Guadel ...

'' **''

Pseudamastus alsa lalannei ''Pseudamastus'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 1985. The genus contains only one species, ''Pseudamastus alsa'', first described by Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found on Dominica, Guadel ...

'' Toulgoët, 1985 *''

Utetheisa ornatrix ''Utetheisa ornatrix'', also called the bella moth, ornate moth or rattlebox moth is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is aposematically colored ranging from pink, red, orange and yellow to white coloration with black markings arranged in va ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *''

Utetheisa pulchella ''Utetheisa pulchella'', the crimson-speckled flunkey, crimson-speckled footman, or crimson-speckled moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. Subs ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

Main species catalogs

* Dubatolov, V. V. (2010). "Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov)". ''Neue Entomologische Nachrichten''. 65: 1-106. * Edwards, E. D. (1996). "Arctiidae". ''Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera'' 4: 278-286, 368-370 * Ferguson, D. C. & Opler, P. A. (2006). "Checklist of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera: Insecta) of the continental United States and Canada". ''Zootaxa'' 1299: 1-33. * Goodger, D. T. & Watson, A. (1995). ''The afrotropical tiger-moths. An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the afrotropical arctiinae (Lepidoptera: arctiidae)''. Apollo Books Aps.:

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, Denmark, 55 pp. * Watson, A. (1971). "An illustrated Catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae type in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Part 1". ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology''. 50: 1-361. * Watson, A. & Goodger, D. T. (1986). "Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths". ''Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology''. 1: 1-71.

External links

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