Arctia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Arctia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Arctia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Arctia
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.
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.
...Arctia in languages:
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- Estonian
- Päevakoerad
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Arctia angelica
- Arctia aulica
- Arctia brachyptera
- Arctia buddenbrocki
- Arctia caja
- Arctia dejeani
- Arctia dido
- Arctia festiva
- Arctia flavia
- Arctia gurkoi
- Arctia intercalaris
- Arctia lapponica
- Arctia martinhoneyi
- Arctia matronula
- Arctia olschwangi
- Arctia opulenta
- Arctia parthenos
- Arctia perornata
- Arctia plantaginis
- Arctia rueckbeili
- Arctia sieversi
- Arctia souliei
- Arctia subnebulosa
- Arctia taona
- Arctia testudinaria
- Arctia thibetica
- Arctia tigrina
- Arctia tundrana
- Arctia ungemachi
- Arctia villica
- Arctia virginalis
- Arctia yarrowii































































































































































