''Argina'' is a genus 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'') ...

. They are distributed throughout Africa, Mauritius, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, New Guinea and Australia.

Description

Palpi upturned, reaching the vertex of head with short third joint. Antennae ciliated in both sexes. Mid and hind tibia with minute terminal spur pairs. Hindwing of male with a fold on inner margin containing a glandular patch near the base, with a tuft of long hair beyond it. The anal angle produced to a point. Forewing with veins 3 to 5 from close to angle of cell. Vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 7 and 10 from a long areole formed by the anastomosis of vein 8 and 9. Hindwing with veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. Vein 8 from middle of cell.

Taxonomy

Not long ago it was divided into three genera: ''Argina'' (''A. cribraria''), ''Alytarchia'' (''A. amanda'', ''A. leonina''), ''Mangina'' (''M. argus'', ''M. syringa'', ''M. pulchra'').

Species

The genus includes the following species: * ''

Argina amanda ''Argina amanda'', the cheetah, is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1847. Description ''Argina amanda'' has a wingspan up to across. The uppersides of the forewings are orange, except ...

'' (Boisduval, 1847) * ''

Argina argus ''Mangina argus'', the crotalaria podborer, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Vincenz Kollar in 1847. It is found in south-east Asia, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan, Hun ...

'' (Kollar,

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* ''

Argina astrea ''Argina'' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. They are distributed throughout Africa, Mauritius, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, New Guinea and Australia. Description Palpi upturned, reaching the vertex of hea ...

'' (Drury, 1773) * ''

Argina leonina ''Alytarchia leonina'' is a moth of 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 macromot ...

'' (Walker,

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* ''

Argina pantheraria ''Argina'' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. They are distributed throughout Africa, Mauritius, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, New Guinea and Australia. Description Palpi upturned, reaching the vertex of hea ...

'' (Felder, 1874)

Former species

For ''

'', the new genus '' Mangina'' Kaleka & Kirti, 2001 was described. This genus also contains (Dubatolov, 2010): * ''

Mangina syringa ''Mangina syringa'' is a moth in the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1775. It is found from southern India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest coun ...

'' (Cramer, 1775) * ''

Mangina pulchra ''Mangina pulchra'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng ...

'' (C. Swinhoe, 1892)

References

*Dubatolov, V. V. (2010). Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). ''Neue Entomologische Nachrichten''. Marktleuthen. 65: 1–106. *Kaleka, A.S. & Kirti J.S. (2001) A new genus ''Mangina'' along with the taxonomy of ''Argina'' Hubner (Arctiinae: Arctiidae: Lepidoptera). ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 98 (2): 250–253. Nyctemerina Moth genera {{Nyctemerina-stub