Arctiinae

Arctiinae
Arctia caja
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Arctiidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Tribes
Amerilini Arctiini Callimorphini Euchaetini Micrarctiini Nyctemerini Phaegopterini Spilosomini

The Arctiinae are a subfamily of moths.

Systematics

The systematics of the Arctiinae are in need of revision and depends significantly on a personal view of an author. In any case, Arctiinae (or Arctiidae) is a monophyletic group with a clear autapomorphic character - a presence of anal glands in females. On the other hand, this group bifurcated between Catocalinae and Herminiinae. So, many specialists downgraded Arctiidae to a subfamily of Erebidae. So, Arctiinae (tiger-moths) were downgraded to a tribe level, and tribes of Arctiinae: Euchaetini, Amerilini, Callimorphini, Nyctemerini, Arctiini, Micrarctiini, Spilosomini should be downgraded to subtribes. List of tribes taken from and.

Sometimes the Ctenuchinae and the Pericopinae are merged in the Arctiinae as tribes too.

Arctiinae incertae sedis

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

• Acyclania
• Amphicallia
• Balaca
• Baroa
• Caribarctia
• Caridarctia

• Curoba
• Diospage
• Euceriodes
• Graphelysia
• Heliozona
• Ilemodes

• Ischnarctia
• Leucopardus
• Mannina
• Melora
• Omochroa
• Stenarctia

A note by V.V. Dubatolov

Generic composition of Arctiinae have been stated in main species catalogs of this subfamily: Nearctics (Ferguson & Opler, 2006), Neotropics (Watson & Goodger, 1986), Eurasia (Dubatolov & de Vos, 2010), Australia (Edwards, 1996), with additions and corrections by V.V. Dubatolov, Afrotropics (Goodger & Watson, 1995 with later additions and corrections by V.V.Dubatolov). Many problematic genera were placed in correct tribes or different subfamilies in these catalogs.

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)

References

• Savela, Markku (2007): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Arctiinae. Version of 2007-MAR-15. Retrieved 2007-JUN-2.

Main species catalogs

• Dubatolov VV (2010) Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65:1-106
• Edwards ED (1996) Arctiidae. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 4:278-286,368-370
• Ferguson DC, Opler PA (2006) Checklist of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera: Insecta) of the continental United States and Canada. Zootaxa 1299:1-33
• Goodger DT, Watson A (1995) The Afrotropical Tiger-Moths. An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the Afrotropical Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Apollo Books Aps.: Denmark, 55 pp.
• Watson A (1971) An illustrated Catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae type in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Part 1. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 50:1-361
• Watson A, Goodger DT (1986) Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 1:1-71

External links

• Arctiidae of the French Antilles. Retrieved 2007-JUN-2.