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Arctia elisabethae

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Species of moth

Arctia elisabethae
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. elisabethae
Binomial name
Arctia elisabethae
(Kotzsch, 1939)
Synonyms
  • Oroncus elisabethae (Kotzsch, 1938)
  • Micrarctia elisabethae Kotzsch, 1938
  • Phragmatobia elisabethae

Arctia elisabethae is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Kotzsch in 1939. It is found in the Hindu Kush mountain range.

The species of the genus Oroncus, including this one, were moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Phragmatobia elisabethae​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  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. hdl:10138/176841.
Taxon identifiers
Oroncus elisabethae


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