Ardices glatignyi
Appearance
Black and white tiger moth | |
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Adult moth | |
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Larva | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Ardices |
Species: | A. glatignyi
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Binomial name | |
Ardices glatignyi (Le Guillemot)
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Synonyms | |
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Ardices_glatignyi_13.jpg/220px-Ardices_glatignyi_13.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Spilosoma_glatignyi_caterpillar.jpg/220px-Spilosoma_glatignyi_caterpillar.jpg)
Ardices glatignyi, the black and white tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae that is found in Australia. Formerly included in Spilosoma, but later generic status of Ardices was proved (Dubatolov, 2005). The larvae are polyphagous, and are known to feed on Lantana camara, Acanthus mollis, and Tradescantia albiflora.[1]
References
- Dubatolov, V.V., 2005: On the status of the Australian genus Ardices F. Walker, 1855 with the description of a new subgenus for A. curvata Donovan, 1805 (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 36 (1/2): 173-179, 394-395 (colour plate 10).
- ^ H. A. Rose (1985). "The relationship between feeding specialization and host plants to aldrin epoxidase activities of midgut homogenates in larval Lepidoptera". Ecological Entomology. 10 (4): 455–467. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1985.tb00744.x.
External links
Media related to Spilosoma glatignyi at Wikimedia Commons