This is a list of the moths of 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 ...
that are found in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full
List of moths of Canada
This page provides links to detailed lists of moth species that have been recorded in Canada. The lists are sorted by family.
Macro moths
* Bombycidae
* Cossidae
* Zygaenidae
* Limacodidae
* Sesiidae
* Lasiocampidae
* Saturniidae
* Drepanidae
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Following the species name, there is an abbreviation that indicates the Canadian provinces or territories in which the species can be found.
*Western Canada
**BC =
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
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Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...
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Manitoba
Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population o ...
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Yukon
Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...
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Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...
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Nunavut
Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...
*Eastern Canada
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Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...
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Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has seve ...
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Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
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Labrador
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Tribe
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 ...
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Acerbia alpina''
(Quensel, 1802) -YT, NT
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Arctia brachyptera''
Troubridge & Lafontaine, 2000 -YT
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Apantesis nais''
(Drury, 1773) -ON, QC, NS
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Apantesis phalerata
''Apantesis phalerata'', the harnessed tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was Species description, first described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841.Cirrus Digital"Harnessed Tiger Moth ''Apantesis phalerata''" It is found ...
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(Harris, 1841) -ON, QC
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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 ...
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(Linnaeus, 1758) -BC, AB, SK, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF
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Arctia opulenta''
(Edwards, 1881) -BC, MB, YT, NT
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Estigmene acrea
''Estigmene acrea'', the salt marsh moth or acrea moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Colombia, Mexico.
Descr ...
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(Drury, 1773) -BC, AB, SK, MB, NT, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NF
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Grammia anna''
(Grote, 1864) -ON
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Grammia arge''
(Drury, 1773) -ON, QC
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Grammia blakei''
(Grote, 1865) -AB, SK, MB, YT
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Grammia celia''
(Saunders, 1863) -BC, AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, ON, QC, NS
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Grammia complicata''
(Walker, 1865) -BC
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Grammia doris
''Apantesis doris'', the Doris tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1869. It is found in North America from British Columbia, northern Idaho, Alberta and western Montana. In the east, it i ...
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(Boisduval, 1869) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Grammia elongata''
(Stretch, 1885) -BC, AB
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Grammia figurata''
(Drury, 1773) -ON, QC
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Grammia gibsoni''
(McDunnough, 1937) -AB, SK, MB
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Grammia nevadensis''
(Grote & Robinson, 1866) -BC
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Grammia obliterata''
(Stretch, 1885) -AB, SK, MB, NT
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Grammia ornata''
(Packard, 1864) -BC
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Grammia parthenice
The parthenice tiger moth (''Apantesis parthenice'') is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in south-eastern Canada, and the eastern United States. The moths are common in fields and woodland edges from June to late September. The moth is ...
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(Kirby, 1837) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF
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Grammia philipiana''
Ferguson, 1985 -YT
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Grammia phyllira''
(Drury, 1773) -AB, SK, ON, QC
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Grammia quenseli''
(Paykull, 1793) -BC, MB, YT, NT, QC, NF
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Grammia superba''
(Stretch, 1873) -BC, AB, YT
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Grammia virgo''
(Linnaeus, 1758) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NF
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Grammia virguncula''
(Kirby, 1837) -AB, SK, MB, YT, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF
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Grammia williamsii
''Apantesis williamsii'', or Williams' tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles R. Dodge in 1871. It is found in North America from the Northwest Territories east to the northern Great Lakes region, New Brunswic ...
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(Dodge, 1871) -BC, AB, SK, MB, NT, ON, QC, NB
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Holoarctia sordida''
(McDunnough, 1921) -BC, AB
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Holomelina aurantiaca''
(Hübner, 831
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-SK, MB, NT, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Holomelina ferruginosa''
(Walker, 1854) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Holomelina fragilis''
(Strecker, 1878) -BC
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Holomelina immaculata''
(Reakirt, 1864) -MB, ON, QC
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Holomelina laeta''
(Guérin-Méneville, 832
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-SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Holomelina lamae''
(Freeman, 1941) -AB, SK, MB, QC, NB, NS, PE
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Holomelina opella''
(Grote, 1863) -ON, QC
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Hypercompe permaculata''
(Packard, 1872) -BC, AB, SK
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Hypercompe scribonia
The giant leopard moth (''Hypercompe scribonia'') is a moth of the family Erebidae. They are distributed through North America from southern Ontario, and southern and eastern United States through New England, Mexico and south to Colombia. The o ...
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(Stoll, 1790) -ON
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Hyphantria cunea
The fall webworm (''Hyphantria cunea'') is a moth in the family Erebidae known principally for its larval stage, which creates the characteristic webbed nests on the tree limbs of a wide variety of hardwoods in the late summer and fall. It is con ...
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(Drury, 1773) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NF
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Leptarctia californiae''
(Walker, 1855) -BC
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Neoarctia beanii''
(Neumoegen, 1891) -BC, AB
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Neoarctia brucei''
(Edwards, 1888) -BC
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Pararctia lapponica''
(Thunberg, 1791) -YT, NT, NU, QC
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Pararctia subnebulosa''
(Dyar, 1899) -YT
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Pararctia yarrowii''
(Stretch, 1873) -BC, AB, YT, NT
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Parasemia plantaginis
''Arctia plantaginis'', the wood tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. Several subspecies are found in the Holarctic ecozone south to Anatolia, Transcaucasus, northern Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan. One subspecies is ende ...
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(Linnaeus, 1758) -BC, AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, ON, QC
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Phragmatobia assimilans''
Walker, 1855 -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Phragmatobia fuliginosa
''Phragmatobia fuliginosa'', the ruby tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae.
Subspecies
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*''Phragmatobia fuliginosa borealis'' ( Staudinger, 1871) in Scotland and in n ...
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(Linnaeus, 1758) -BC, AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF
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Phragmatobia lineata''
Newman & Donahue, 1966 -AB, SK, ON
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Platarctia parthenos''
(Harris, 1850) -BC, AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF
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Platyprepia virginalis
''Arctia virginalis'', the Ranchman's tiger moth, is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852.
It is found in western North America, ranging from southern Monterey Bay in Californi ...
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(Boisduval, 1852) -BC
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Pyrrharctia isabella
''Pyrrharctia isabella'', the isabella tiger moth, whose larval form is called the banded woolly bear, woolly bear, or woolly worm, occurs in the United States and southern Canada. It was first formally named by James Edward Smith in 1797.
D ...
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(Smith, 1797) -BC, AB, SK, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NF
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Spilosoma congrua
The agreeable tiger moth (''Spilosoma congrua'') is one of three species of white tiger moth which are common in the United States. It has pronounced black eyes, white abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky ...
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Walker, 1855 -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Spilosoma danbyi
''Spilosoma danbyi'', or Danby's tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Berthold Neumoegen and Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1893. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Washington and western Canada ...
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(Neumoegen & Dyar, 1893) -BC, AB, MB
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Spilosoma dubia
''Spilosoma dubia'', the dubious tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found from south-eastern Canada west to Alberta and in the eastern United States. The habitat consists of aspen par ...
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(Walker, 1855) -AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE
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Spilosoma latipennis''
Stretch, 1872 -ON, QC, NB
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Spilosoma pteridis
''Spilosoma pteridis'', the brown tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1875. It is found in the United States in western Oregon and Washington, British Columbia and northern Idaho. The habitat consis ...
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Edwards, 1874 -BC, AB, SK
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Spilosoma vagans''
(Boisduval, 1852) -BC, AB
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Spilosoma virginica
''Spilosoma virginica'' is a species of moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. As a caterpillar, it is known as the yellow woolly bear or yellow bear caterpillar. As an adult, it is known as the Virginian tiger moth.
Caterpillar life stage
Identifi ...
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(Fabricius, 1798) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NF
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Dodia albertae''
Dyar, 1901 -AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, QC
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Dodia kononenkoi''
Tshistjakov & Lafontaine, 1984 -YT
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Dodia verticalis''
Lafontaine & Troubridge, 2000 -YT
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Haploa clymene
''Haploa clymene'', the Clymene moth, is a moth of the tiger moth subfamily - Arctiinae, tribe Arctiini. The species was first described by Peter Brown in 1776. It is found in eastern North America.
Description
The forewing is creamy yellow wi ...
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(Brown, 1776) -ON, QC, NB
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Haploa confusa''
(Lyman, 1887) -SK, MB, ON, QC, NB
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Haploa contigua''
(Walker, 1855) -ON, QC
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Haploa lecontei
''Haploa lecontei'', or Leconte's haploa, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1832. It is found in North America from Nova Scotia to Georgia, west to Manitoba through Arkansas ...
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(Guérin-Méneville, 1832) -AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Haploa reversa''
(Stretch, 1885) -ON
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Tyria jacobaeae
The cinnabar moth (''Tyria jacobaeae'') is a brightly coloured arctiid moth found as a native species in Europe and western and central Asia then east across the Palearctic to Siberia to China. It has been introduced into New Zealand, Australia a ...
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(Linnaeus, 1758) -BC, QC, NB, NS
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Utetheisa bella''
(Linnaeus, 1758) -ON, QC, NS
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Cisseps fulvicollis
''Cisseps fulvicollis'', the yellow-collared scape moth, is a species of the family Erebidae and subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
Description
The wingspan is between 29 and 37 mm.
Distribution
This moth ...
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(Hübner, 818
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-BC, AB, SK, MB, NT, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Ctenucha virginica
''Ctenucha virginica'', the Virginia ctenucha, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was Species description, first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1794.
Morphology
The wingspan ranges from . The wing color varies from bl ...
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(Charpentier, 1830) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, PE, NF
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Gnophaela vermiculata''
(Grote, 1864) -BC, AB, SK, MB
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Cycnia oregonensis''
(Stretch, 1873) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS
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Cycnia tenera
''Cycnia tenera'', the dogbane tiger moth or delicate cycnia, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It occurs throughout North America, from southern British Columbia to Nova Scotia southwards to Arizona and Florida. The species is distasteful and th ...
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Hübner, 1818 -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Euchaetes egle
''Euchaetes egle'', the milkweed tiger moth or milkweed tussock moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is a common mid- through late summer feeder ...
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(Drury, 1773) -ON, QC
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Halysidota harrisii''
Walsh, 1864 -ON
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Halysidota tessellaris
''Halysidota tessellaris'', also called the pale tiger moth, banded tussock moth, and tessellated halisidota, is in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by James Edward Smith in 1797. Lik ...
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(Smith, 1797) -SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE
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Lophocampa argentata''
(Packard, 1864) -BC
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Lophocampa caryae
''Lophocampa caryae'', the hickory tiger moth, hickory tussock moth, or hickory halisidota, is a moth in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species is widely distributed in the eastern half of North America.http://mo ...
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Harris, 1841 -ON, QC, NS
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Lophocampa maculata
''Lophocampa maculata'', the Yellow-spotted tussock moth, mottled tiger or spotted halisidota, is a moth of the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841. It is f ...
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Harris, 1841 -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF
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Lophocampa roseata''
(Walker, 1866) -BC
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Pygarctia spraguei''
(Grote, 1875) -MB
Tribe
Lithosiini
The Lithosiini are a tribe of lichen moths in the family Erebidae. The taxon was described by Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820.
Systematics
The tribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the subfamily Lithosiinae, within the lichen an ...
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Acsala anomala''
Benjamin, 1935 -YT, NT
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Bruceia pulverina
''Bruceia pulverina'' 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 macromoth gr ...
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Neumoegen, 1893 -BC
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Cisthene plumbea''
Stretch, 1885 -ON
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Clemensia albata''
Packard, 1864 -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Crambidia casta''
(Packard, 1869) -BC, AB, SK, YT, ON, QC, NS
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Crambidia cephalica''
(Grotes & Robinson, 1870) -AB
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Crambidia impura''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 -BC, AB, MB, YT
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Crambidia pallida''
Packard, 1864 -MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
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Crambidia pura''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 -ON
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Eilema bicolor''
(Grote, 1864) -BC, AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF
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Hypoprepia fucosa
''Hypoprepia fucosa'', the painted lichen moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1831. It is found in the United States and southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains.
The wingspan
Th ...
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Hübner, 831
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/small> -MB, ON, QC, NB, NS
*''Hypoprepia miniata
''Hypoprepia miniata'', the scarlet-winged lichen moth or scarlet lichen moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by William Kirby in 1837. It is found from British Columbia south through the western side of the ...
'' (Kirby, 1837) -BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS
*'' Lycomorpha pholus'' (Drury, 1773) -AB, SK, ON, QC, NB, NS
External links
Moths of Canadaat the Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
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 ...