Biology:Spilarctia

Spilarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875.

Subgenus Spilarctia

• accensa species group
  • Spilarctia accensa (Swinhoe, 1903)
  • Spilarctia ericsoni (Semper, 1899)
  • Spilarctia rhodochroa (Hampson, 1916)
  • Spilarctia rubriventris (Talbot, 1926)
• ananda species group
  • Spilarctia ananda (Roepke, 1938)
  • Spilarctia groganae (Holloway, 1976)
  • Spilarctia irina Dubatolov, 2006
• bisecta species group
  • Spilarctia bisecta (Leech, [1889])
  • Spilarctia graminivora Inoue, 1988
  • Spilarctia lungtani Daniel, 1943
  • Spilarctia subtestacea (Rothschild, 1910)
• casigneta species group
  • Spilarctia adumbrata (Thomas, 1994)
  • Spilarctia borneensis (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia casigneta (Kollar, [1844])
  • Spilarctia fumida (Wileman, 1910)
  • Spilarctia roseata (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia rubilinea (Moore, [1866])
  • Spilarctia rufofusca (Thomas, 1994)
  • Spilarctia sagittifera Moore, 1888
  • Spilarctia sinica Daniel, 1943
  • Spilarctia tamangi (Thomas, 1994)
  • Spilarctia variata Daniel, 1943
  • Spilarctia xanthogaster (Thomas, 1994)
  • Spilarctia xanthogastes Fang, 2000
  • Spilarctia xanthosoma (Roepke, 1954)
• hypogopa species group
  • Spilarctia daltonica (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia hypogopa (Hampson, 1907)
  • Spilarctia flavorubida Dubatolov, 2006
  • Spilarctia moorei Snellen, 1879
  • Spilarctia philippina Dubatolov & Kishida, 2006
  • Spilarctia postrubida (Wileman, 1910)
• leopardina species group
  • Spilarctia inayatullahi Dubatolov & Gurko, 2004
  • Spilarctia leopardina (Kollar, 1844)
  • Spilarctia melanostigma (Erschoff, 1872)
• lutea species group
  • Spilarctia lutea (Hufnagel, 1766)
  • Spilarctia seriatopunctata (Motschulsky, [1861])
• nydia species group
  • Spilarctia nydia Butler, 1875
  • Spilarctia semperi (Rothschild, 1910)
• obliqua species group
  • Spilarctia montana (Guérin-Ménéville in Delesserte, 1843)
  • Spilarctia obliqua (Walker, 1855)
• punctata species group
  • Spilarctia caloscopium (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia congruenta (Thomas, [1993])
  • Spilarctia denigrata (Thomas, [1993])
  • Spilarctia gopara (Moore, [1860])
  • Spilarctia hosei (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia kareli (Thomas, [1993])
  • Spilarctia mahaplaga (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia murzini Dubatolov, 2005
  • Spilarctia percellens (Thomas, [1993])
  • Spilarctia phaea (Hampson, 1901)
  • Spilarctia procedra (Swinhoe, 1907)
  • Spilarctia punctata (Moore, 1859)
  • Spilarctia siberuta Dubatolov, 2006
  • Spilarctia thomasi (Holloway, 1988)
  • Spilarctia ummera Swinhoe, [1890]
  • Spilarctia ummeroides (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia virgulae (Černý, 2011)

• "dinawa species group" (unpublished but as listed by Dubatolov)
  • Spilarctia alberti (Rothschild, 1914)
  • Spilarctia biagi (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Spilarctia cinnamomea (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia dinawa (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
  • Spilarctia kebea (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
  • Spilarctia owgarra (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Spilarctia pratti (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
  • Spilarctia rubribasis (Joicey & Talbot in Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916)
  • Spilarctia vulgaris (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia wildi (De Vos, 2013) [Note: Placement per comment in De Vos, 2013 that belongs to "dinawa species group"]

• "styx species group" (unpublished but as listed by Dubatolov)
  • Spilarctia reticulata (Rothschild, 1933)
  • Spilarctia styx (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Spilarctia withaari (De Vos, 2013) [Note: Placement per comment in De Vos, 2013 that belongs to "styx species group"]

• unplaced to species group
  • Spilarctia adelphus (Rothschild, 1920)
  • Spilarctia adriani (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia alba (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
  • Spilarctia albicornis (Hampson, 1900)
  • Spilarctia arctichroa (Druce, 1909)
  • Spilarctia ardens (Kishida, 1987)
  • Spilarctia aurocostata (Oberthür, 1911)
  • Spilarctia baltazarae (Černý, 1995)
  • Spilarctia bifascia Hampson, 1891
  • Spilarctia bifasciata Butler, 1881
  • Spilarctia bipunctata Daniel, 1943
  • Spilarctia brechlini (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia brunnea (Heylaerts, 1890)
  • Spilarctia cadioui Thomas, 1989
  • Spilarctia cajetani (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia castanea (Hampson, 1893)
  • Spilarctia chuanxina C.-L. Fang, 1982
  • Spilarctia clava (Wileman, 1910)
  • Spilarctia coccinea (Hampson, 1907)
  • Spilarctia comma (Walker, 1856)
  • Spilarctia contaminata (Wileman, 1910)
  • Spilarctia coorgensis Kirti & Gill, 2010
  • Spilarctia costata (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Spilarctia dohertyi (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia dukouensis C.-L. Fang, 1982
  • Spilarctia eldorado (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia enarotali (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia extirpata (Černý, 2009)
  • Spilarctia fidelia (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia fraterna (Rothschild, 1910
  • Spilarctia gianellii (Oberthür, 1911)
  • Spilarctia grandimacula (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia hampsoni (Joicey & Talbot, 1916)
  • Spilarctia harlequina (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia hetera (Černý, 2009)
  • Spilarctia holobrunnea (Joicey & Talbot in Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916)
  • Spilarctia hypsoides (Rothschild, 1914)
  • Spilarctia inexpectata (Rothschild, 1933)
  • Spilarctia irregularis (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia javana (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia leopoldi (Tams, 1935)
  • Spilarctia longiramia (Hampson, 1901)
  • Spilarctia mastrigti (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia metaxantha (Hampson, 1901)
  • Spilarctia mona (Swinhoe, 1885)
  • Spilarctia motuonica C.-L. Fang, 1982
  • Spilarctia nana (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia nigrovittatus (Matsumura, 1911)
  • Spilarctia nobilis (Turner, 1940)
  • Spilarctia novaeguineae (Rothschild, 1913)
  • Spilarctia oberthueri (Semper, 1899)
  • Spilarctia obliquizonata (Miyake, 1910)
  • Spilarctia pallidivena (Černý, 2009)
  • Spilarctia persimilis (Rothschild, 1914)
  • Spilarctia postbrunnea (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia quercii (Oberthür, 1911)
  • Spilarctia rhodius (Rothschild, 1920)
  • Spilarctia rostagnoi (Oberthür, 1911)
  • Spilarctia ruficosta (Joicey & Talbot in Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916)
  • Spilarctia semialbescens (Talbot, 1929)
  • Spilarctia sparsalis (Walker, [1865])
  • Spilarctia subcarnea (Walker, 1855)
  • Spilarctia tengchongensis Fang & Cao, 1984
  • Spilarctia terminicomma (Černý, 2009)
  • Spilarctia tigrina (Moore, 1879)
  • Spilarctia todara (Moore, 1872)
  • Spilarctia toxopei (Roepke, 1954)
  • Spilarctia transversa (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia vandepolli (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia venata (Wileman, 1915)
  • Spilarctia victorina (Černý, 2011)

• • Spilarctia wernerthomasi (De Vos & Suhartawan, 2011)
  • Spilarctia whiteheadi (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia wilemani (Rothschild, 1914)
  • Spilarctia yukikoae Kishida, 1995
  • Spilarctia zhangmuna C.-L. Fang, 1982

Subgenus Rhodareas Kirby, 1892

• Spilarctia melanopsis (Walker, [1865])

Subgenus Praephragmatobia Dubatolov & Y. Kishida, 2010

• cervina species group
  • Spilarctia cervina (Wallengren, 1860)
  • Spilarctia griseabrunnea (Holloway, 1976)
  • Spilarctia rubescens (Walker, 1855)
• philippinica species group
  • Spilarctia mindanao Dubatolov & Y. Kishida, 2010
  • Spilarctia mollis (Černý, 2011)
  • Spilarctia palawana Dubatolov & Y. Kishida, 2010
  • Spilarctia philippinica Dubatolov & Kishida, 2010
• strigatula species group
  • Spilarctia gurkoi Dubatolov & Y. Kishida, 2010
  • Spilarctia strigatula (Walker, 1855)
• sumatrana species group
  • Spilarctia continentalis (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Spilarctia sumatrana (Swinhoe, 1905)

Taxonomy

Spilarctia species are often included in Spilosoma.

Spilarctia

References

• Daniel, F., 1953: Neue Heterocera-Arten und -Formen. Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 43: 252- 261..
• Daniel, F., 1955: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Arctiidae Ostasiens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ausbeute von Dr. h. c. H. Höne aus diesem Gebiet (IV. Teil: Nachträge). Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 6 (1-2): 132-145.
• Daniel, F., 1961: Spilarctia karakorumica sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 51: 159.
• Dubatolov, V. V., Y. Kishida & Ch. Fang, 2005: Review of the subspecies of Spilarctia leopardina (Kollar, 1844) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 36 (1-2): 180-188.
• Vos. de R., 2013: Two new Spilosoma species from Indonesian New Guinea (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini). SUGAPA (Suara Serangga Papua), 7 (4): 107-113.
• Dubatolov, V. V., 2005: Description of new taxa of tiger moths from China, with some synonymic notes (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 36 (3/4): 526-537.
• Dubatolov, V. V., 2006: New Spilarctia species from Western Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 37 (3/4): 399-407.
• Dubatolov, V. V., 2007: New tiger moth taxa from Eurasia. (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 38 (3-4): 351-359.
• Dubatolov, V. V., 2010: Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65: 1-106, Marktleuthen. Also see Archive
• Dubatolov, V. V. & Y. Kishida, 2006: Review of the Spilarctia hypogopagroup, with descriptions of a new species and two new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 37 (3/4): 393-398.
• Dubatolov, V. V. & Y. Kishida, 2010: Praephragmatobia gen. nov., a new subgenus of the Spilarctia strigatula group, with a preliminary review of species (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Tinea 21 (2): 98-111.
• Fang, C.-L., 1982: Four new species of the genus Spilarctia from West China (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 25 (2): 201-203.
• Freina, de J. J., 1997: New discovered tiger moths from the Asian Palaearctic fauna (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Linneana Belgica 16 (1): 49-60.
• Inoue, H., 1988: Three new species and some synonymic notes on the Arctiidae from Japan, Taiwan and Philippines. Tyô to Ga 39 (2): 99-118.
• Kirti, J. S. & N. S. Gill, 2010: Studies on external genitalia of seven Indian species of the genus Spilarctia Butler (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae) along with the description of a new species. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (6): 948-960.
• Witt, T. J. & L. Ronkay, 2011: Lymantriinae and Arctiinae - Including Phylogeny and Check List of the Quadrifid Noctuoidea of Europe. Noctuidae Europaeae 13: 1-448.

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