Arctia tigrina
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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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Arctia tigrina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula and the South of France and Italy.
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]
References
[edit]- ^ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194. hdl:10138/176841.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Atlantarctia tigrina.
Wikispecies has information related to Arctia tigrina.
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepiforum.de
- Atlantarctia tigrina page from Portugal