Biology:Micrarctia

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Short description: Genus of moths

Micrarctia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Arctiina
Genus: Micrarctia
Seitz, 1910
Species:
M. trigona
Binomial name
Micrarctia trigona
(Leech, 1899)

Micrarctia is a tiger moth genus in the family Erebidae described by Seitz in 1910. The genus currently contains two species. Both species are found in central to western China, including the Chinese provinces of Qinghai and Sichuan.[1][2]

Taxonomy

In the 20th century, this genus name was used for many small tiger moths from different subtribes, which were later separated into their own genera: Palearctia, Sibirarctia, Sinoarctia, Lithosarctia, Sinowatsonia.

Species

Micrarctia trigona (Leech, 1899)
Micrarctia kautti Saldaitis & Pekarsky, 2015[3]

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Micrarctia Seitz, 1910". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/micrarctia/. Retrieved August 8, 2019. 
  2. 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. 
  3. Saldaitis, A.; Pekarsky, O.. "A new species Micrarctia kautti (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae) from West China". Zootaxa 3955 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.2.7. 

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