Arctia alpina

Arctia alpina

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)
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. alpina
Binomial name
Arctia alpina
(Quensel, 1802)
Synonyms
  • Acerbia alpina (Quensel, 1802)
  • Bombyx alpina Quensel, 1802
  • Arctia alpina (Quensel in Acerbi, 1802)
  • Arctia thulea Dalman, 1823

Arctia alpina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia, high mountains of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia; also in Alaska and northwestern Canada.

Its wingspan is 42–50 mm.

The larvae feed on Taraxacum officinale, Vaccinium and Salix herbacea.

This species was formerly a member of the genus Acerbia, but was moved to Arctia along with the other species of the genera Acerbia, Pararctia, Parasemia, Platarctia, and Platyprepia.[1][2]

Subspecies

  • Arctia alpina alpina
  • Arctia alpina johanseni (O. Bang-Haas, 1927)
  • Arctia alpina severa Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2004 (Kodar Mountains in Siberia)
  • Arctia alpina siberica O. Bang-Haas, 1927 (Siberia)

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Schmidt, B. Christian; Lafontaine, J. Donald; Troubridge, James T. (2018). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV". ZooKeys (252): 241–252. doi:10.3897/zookeys.252.28500. PMC 6189224. PMID 30337831.

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