Argina
- For the town in Armenia, see Argina, Armenia.
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| Argina amanda. Mounted specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Nyctemerina |
| Genus: | Argina Hübner, [1819] |
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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