Argina

For the town in Armenia, see Argina, Armenia.
Argina
Argina amanda. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Nyctemerina
Genus: Argina
Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
  • Alytarchia Wallengren, 1863
  • Alytarchia Wallengren, 1865
  • Xanthesthes Rambur, 1866
  • Lomaspilis Felder, 1874

Argina is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family.

Taxonomy

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

The genus includes the following species:

Former species

For Argina argus, the new genus Mangina Kaleka et Kirti, 2001 was described. This genus also contains (Dubatolov, 2010):

References


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