Scarlet tiger moth

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Scarlet Tiger Moth

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Subclass:	Pterygota
Infraclass:	Neoptera
Superorder:	Endopterygota
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Arctiidae
Subfamily:	Callimorphinae
Tribe:	Callimorphini
Genus:	Callimorpha
Species:	C. dominula

Binomial name

Callimorpha dominula
Linnaeus, 1758

The Scarlet Tiger Moth (Callimorpha dominula, formerly Panaxia dominula) is a colorful moth of Europe and western and central Asia (Dubatalov n.d.). It belongs to the tiger moth family, Arctiidae.

The larvae feed mostly on comfrey (Symphytum officinale). The imagos fly by day.

The three forms occurring in the population at the Cothill reserve in Oxfordshire, Britain, have been the subject of considerable genetic study (McNamara 1998).

McNamara (1998) describes how amateurs can rear this species.

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Scarlet Tiger Moth Caterpillar

[edit] References

Dubatalov, V. V. Arctiidae catalog of the former USSR. Retrieved on 2006-08-15.

Fisher, R.A. and E.B. Ford (1947). The spread of a gene in natural conditions in a colony of the moth Panaxia dominula L. Heredity 1:143–174 PDF 1.8MB

Fisher, R.A. and E.B. Ford (1950). The "Sewall Wright" effect Heredity 4:117–119 PDF 183KB

Ford, E.B. and P.M. Sheppard (1969). The medionigra polymorphism of Panaxia dominula. Heredity 24:112–134.

McNamara, Don (1998). Notes on Rearing Scarlet tiger moth Callimorpha dominula (L.). Amateur Entomologists' Society. Retrieved on 2006-08-15.

Sheppard, P.M. (1951). A quantitive study of two populations of the moth Panaxia dominula (L.) Heredity 5:349–378

Sheppard, P.M. (1952). A note on non-random mating in the moth Panaxia dominula L. Heredity 5 349–378

Sheppard, P.M. and L.M. Cook (1962). The manifold effects of the medionigra gene of the moth Panaxia dominula and the maintenance of polymorphism. Heredity 17:415–426.