Arctiina

Arctiina
Arctia villica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Arctiini
Subtribe:	Arctiina Leach, [1815]

The Arctiina are a subtribe of moths in the Erebidae family.

Taxonomy

The subtribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the Arctiini tribe, within the Arctiidae family of lichen and tiger moths. The ranks of the family and its subdivisions were lowered in a recent reclassification while keeping the contents of the family and its subdivisions largely unchanged. These changes in rank triggered changes in the suffixes in the names. The Arctiidae family as a whole was reclassified as the Arctiinae subfamily within the Erebidae family. The original subfamilies were lowered to tribes, and the original Arctiini tribe was lowered to subtribe status as Arctiina. Thus the name "Arctiini" used to refer to the subtribe that is the topic of this article, but now that name refers to the tribe that includes this subtribe.

Genera

The following genera are included in the subtribe.^[1][2]

• Acerbia
• Apantesis
• Arctia
• Atlantarctia
• Borearctia
• Epicallia
• Eucharia
• Gonerda
• Grammia
• Holoarctia
• Hyperborea
• Hyphoraia
• Neoarctia
• Notarctia
• Oroncus
• Orontobia
• Palerontobia
• Pararctia
• Parasemia
• Pericallia
• Platarctia
• Platyprepia
• Preparctia
• Sinoarctia
• Sonorarctia
• Stauropolia
• Virbia

List of genera after: Dubatolov, 2008^[3] and 2010^[4]

Other genera that might belong to another tribes

• Arachnis
• Chlorhoda
• Chlorocrisia
• Hiera
• Hypercompe - includes Ecpantheria
• Hypomolis
• Lafajana
• Leichosila
• Mallocephala
• Metacrisiodes
• Palaeomolis
• Paracles
• Pseudalus
• Stenucha
• Venedictoffia

Euerythra and Kodiosoma are now in Phaegopterina.

References

1. Ferguson DC (1985): Contributions toward reclassification of the world genera of the tribe Arctiini, Part 1 – Introduction and a revision of the Neoarctia-Grammia group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae; Arctiinae). Entomography. An Annual Review for Biosystematics 3: 181-275, Sacramento, California
2. Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys 40: 26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
3. Dubatolov, VV (2008). "Construction of the phylogenetic model for the genera of the tribe Arctiini (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) with the SYNAP method. Entomological Review 88(7) 833-837. Translated from". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 87 (3): 653–658.
4. Dubatolov, VV (2010). "Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov)". Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65: 1–106.