Phragmatobia

Phragmatobia
Phragmatobia fuliginosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Spilosomina
Genus:	Phragmatobia Stephens, 1828
Type species
Phalaena fuliginosa Linnaeus, 1758

Phragmatobia is a scratch genus of moths in the Arctiidae family. Many tiger-moth species of small and medium size were described within this genus. However, only few are related to the type species:

Species

• Phragmatobia amurensis Seitz, 1910
• Phragmatobia assimilans Walker, 1855
• Phragmatobia fuliginosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Phragmatobia lineata Newman & Donahue, 1966
• Phragmatobia placida (Frivaldszky, 1835)

All other species were separated into different genera, or still remain in Phragmatobia and wait for reviewers:

• Phragmatobia coelestina Püngeler, 1904 - in Orontobia
• Phragmatobia fervida (Walker, 1855) - in Sonorarctia
• Phragmatobia flavata (Hampson, 1901)
• Phragmatobia flavescens (Rothschild, 1933) - in Andesobia
• Phragmatobia fumipennis Hampson, 1891 - in Bucaea
• Phragmatobia hodeva (Druce, 1897) - in Allanwatsonia
• Phragmatobia karsholti Toulgoët, 1991
• Phragmatobia luctifera [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775 - in Epatolmis
• Phragmatobia modesta Maassen, 1890 - in Amastus
• Phragmatobia nundar Dyar, 1907 - in Sonorarctia
• Phragmatobia oberthueri Rothschild, 1910 - in Lymantriidae
• Phragmatobia parvula (Felder, 1874) - in Pseudophragmatobia
• Phragmatobia sanguinea (Hampson, 1907)
• Phragmatobia thursbyi (Rothschild, 1910)

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
• Phragmatobia at funet