Spilosoma glatignyi

Ardices glatignyi
Adult moth
Larva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Arctiidae
Genus:	Ardices
Species:	A. glatignyi
Binomial name
Ardices glatignyi (Le Guillemot)
Synonyms
Chelonia glatignyi Le Guillou, 1841 Spilosoma glatignyi Spilarctia glatignyi Chelonia pallida Doubleday, 1845 Arcides fulvohirta F. Walker, 1855 Spilosoma subocellatum F. Walker, 1856 Spilosoma conferta F. Walker, 1865 Arcides garida Swinhoe, 1892 Diacrisia garida Spilosoma queenslandi Lucas, 1898 Diacrisia meridionalis Rothschild, 1910 Arcides suffusa Rothschild, 1914 Maenas fremantlei Strand, 1924

Eggs

Profile of the caterpillar

Ardices glatignyi, the Black and White Tiger Moth, is a moth in the family Arctiidae 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).

1. 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