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
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
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:

• 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, the new genus Mangina Kaleka et Kirti, 2001 was described. This genus also contains (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