Arctiina
The Arctiina are a subtribe of moths in the family Erebidae.
Arctiina | |
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Arctia villica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Tribe: | Arctiini |
Subtribe: | Arctiina Leach, [1815] |
Taxonomy
The subtribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the tribe Arctiini, within the lichen and tiger moth family Arctiidae. The ranks of the family and its subdivisions were lowered in a recent reclassification while keeping the contents of the family and its subdivisions largely unchanged. These changes in rank triggered changes in the suffixes in the names. The family Arctiidae as a whole was reclassified as the subfamily Arctiinae within the family Erebidae. The original subfamilies were lowered to tribes, and the original tribe Arctiini was lowered to subtribe status as Arctiina. Thus the name "Arctiini" used to refer to the subtribe that is the topic of this article, but now that name refers to the tribe that includes this subtribe.
Other genera that might belong to another tribes
- Arachnis
- Chlorhoda
- Chlorocrisia
- Hiera
- Hypercompe - includes Ecpantheria
- Hypomolis
- Lafajana
- Leichosila
- Mallocephala
- Metacrisiodes
- Palaeomolis
- Paracles
- Pseudalus
- Stenucha
- Venedictoffia
Euerythra and Kodiosoma are now in Phaegopterina.
References
- Ferguson DC (1985): Contributions toward reclassification of the world genera of the tribe Arctiini, Part 1 – Introduction and a revision of the Neoarctia-Grammia group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae; Arctiinae). Entomography. An Annual Review for Biosystematics 3: 181-275, Sacramento, California
- Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- Dubatolov, VV (2008). "Construction of the phylogenetic model for the genera of the tribe Arctiini (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) with the SYNAP method. Entomological Review 88(7) 833-837. Translated from". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 87 (3): 653–658.
- Dubatolov, VV (2010). "Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov)". Neue Entomologische Nachrichten. 65: 1–106.
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