Arctia tigrina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula and the South of France and Italy.
Arctia tigrina | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Arctia |
Species: | A. tigrina |
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Arctia tigrina (Villers, 1789) | |
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The larvae feed on various plants, including Syringa, Euphorbia and Genista species.
This species, along with the others of the genus Atlantarctia, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.[1]
Taxon identifiers | |
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Arctia tigrina |
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Atlantarctia tigrina |
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