Arctiini

For the tribe Arctiini of the former tiger moth family, Arctiidae, seeArctiina.For the subfamily Arctiinae of the moth family Erebidae, seeArctiinae (moth).

Arctiini
Garden tiger moth(Arctia caja)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Tribe:	Arctiini

Halysidota tessellariscocoon

TheArctiiniare atribeoftiger mothsin the familyErebidae.

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 subfamilyArctiinaeas a whole was reclassified as the subfamilyArctiinaewithin the familyErebidae.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 becameCallimorphina). 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 areincertae sedis.

• Arctiina
• Callimorphina
• Ctenuchina
• Euchromiina
• Micrarctiina
• Nyctemerina
• Pericopina
• Phaegopterina
• Spilosomina
• Incertae sedis

A note by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov

Generic composition of Arctiinae have been stated in main species catalogs of this subfamily: Nearctic (Ferguson & Opler, 2006), Neotropical (Watson & Goodger, 1986), Eurasia (Dubatolov & de Vos, 2010), Australia (Edwards, 1996), with additions and correctionsby Dubatolov,Afrotropical (Goodger & Watson, 1995 with later additions and corrections byDubatolov). Many problematic genera were placed in correct tribes or different subfamilies in these catalogs.

Some notable taxa

• Eupseudosoma involuta(Sepp, 1855)
• Halysidota leda(Druce, 1880)
  • Halysidota leda leda
  • Halysidota leda enricoiToulgoët, 1978
• Halysidota schausiRothschild, 1909
• Hypercompe icasia(Cramer, 1777)
• Opharus bimaculata(Dewitz, 1877)
• Pachydota albiceps(Walker, 1856)
• Pseudamastus alsa(Druce, 1890)
  • Pseudamastus alsa alsa
  • Pseudamastus alsa lalanneiToulgoët, 1985
• Utetheisa ornatrix(Linnaeus, 1758)
• Utetheisa pulchella(Linnaeus, 1758)

References

• Savela, Markku."Arctiinae Leach, [1815]".Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.RetrievedSeptember 16,2019.

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 Lepidoptera4: 278–286, 368–370
• Ferguson, D. C. & Opler, P. A. (2006). "Checklist of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera: Insecta) of the continental United States and Canada".Zootaxa1299:1-33.
• 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.:Stenstrup,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

• "Arctiidae".Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles.RetrievedSeptember 16,2019.