Argina

For the town in Armenia, see Argina, Armenia.

Argina

Mangina argus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Family:	Arctiidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Argina Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
Alytarchia Wallengren, 1863 Alytarchia Wallengren, 1865 Xanthesthes Rambur, 1866 Lomaspilis Felder, 1874

Argina is a moth genus in the family Arctiidae. Not long ago it was divided into three genera: Argina (A. cribraria), Alytarchia (A. amanda, A. leonina), Mangina (M. argus, M. syringa, M. pulchra).

Species

Species include:

Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847)
Argina argus (Kollar, [1847])
Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)
Argina leonina (Walker, [1865])
Argina pantheraria (Felder, 1874)

Former species

For Argina argus a new genus Mangina Kaleka et Kirti, 2001 was described; this genus contains also (Dubatolov, 2010):

Mangina syringa (Cramer, 1775)
Mangina pulchra (Swinhoe, 1892)

References

Dubatolov, V.V. (2010). Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten. Marktleuthen. 65: 1-106.
Kaleka, A.S. & Kirti J.S. (2001) A new genus Mangina along with the taxonomy of Argina Hubner (Arctiinae: Arctiidae: Lepidoptera). Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 98 (2): 250-253.
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog