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Arctia cupido

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Arctia cupido
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. cupido
Binomial name
Arctia cupido
(Kishida, 1995)
Synonyms
Preparctia cupido Kishida, 1995

Arctia cupido is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Yasunori Kishida in 1995. It is found in Nepal.[1][2]

The species of the genus Preparctia, including this one, were moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Preparctia cupido Kishida, 1995". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  2. ^ Checklist of Arctiidae of the Palaearctic region
  3. ^ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194.