Arctiinae

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Arctiinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Arctiidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribes

Arctiini
Callimorphini
Micrarctiini
Nyctemerini
Phaegopterini
Spilosomini

The Arctiinae are a subfamily of moths.

[edit] Systematics

The systematics of the Arctiinae are in need of revision. The arrangement followed here is based on the preliminary consensus list of Savela (2007). Sometimes the Ctenuchinae and the Pericopinae are merged in the Arctiinae as tribes too.

[edit] Arctiinae incertae sedis

A considerable number of genera has not been robustly assigned to a tribe yet. Some of these might even not belong into the Arctiidae at all. The genera incertae sedis are:

  • Melora
  • Menegites
  • Micralarctia
  • Migoplastis
  • Neoarctia
  • Neuroxena
  • Omochroa
  • Paralpenus
  • Paramaenas
  • Paraplastis
  • Phlyctaenogastra
  • Platyprepia
  • Poecilarctia
  • Pseudogaltara
  • Rhodogastria
  • Saenura
  • Satara
  • Seirarctia
  • Stenarctia
  • Teracotona

[edit] Some notable taxa

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

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