Arctia

Arctia
Arctia caja imago
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Subtribe: Arctiina
Genus: Arctia
Schrank, 1802
Synonyms

Ammobiota Wallengren, 1885
Eucharia Hübner, [1820] (disputed)

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.

Acerbia
Ammobiota
Atlantarctia
Borearctia
Callarctia
Chionophila
Eupsychoma
Gonerda
Nemeophila
Oroncus
Pararctia
Platarctia
Platyprepia
Preparctia
Sinoarctia
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