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Arctiini sp.

Arctiini sp.


Family: Erebidae
Order: Lepidoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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The Arctiini are a tribe of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.

Systematics: The tribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the subfamily Arctiinae, within the lichen and tiger moth family, Arctiidae. 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 subfamily Arctiinae as a whole was reclassified as the subfamily Arctiinae within the family Erebidae. The original subfamily Arctiinae was lowered to tribe status as Arctiini, and its original tribes were lowered to subtribe status by changing the -ini suffix to -ina (e.g., Callimorphini became Callimorphina). Thus, the name "Arctiinae" used to refer to only a subgroup of the entire group of lichen and tiger moths, but now it refers to the entire group.

Subtribes (former tribes): Many genera in the tribe have been classified into the following subtribes, while the others are incertae sedis.
  • Arctiina
  • Callimorphina
  • Ctenuchina
  • Euchromiina
  • Micrarctiina
  • Nyctemerina
  • Pericopina
  • Phaegopterina
  • Spilosomina
  • Incertae sedis

A note by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov: Generic composition of Arctiinae have been stated in main species catalogs of this subfamily: Nearctic (Ferguson & Opler, 2006), Neotropical (Watson & Goodger, 1986), Eurasia (Dubatolov & de Vos, 2010), Australia (Edwards, 1996), with additions and corrections , Afrotropical (Goodger & Watson, 1995 with later additions and corrections by ). Many problematic genera were placed in correct tribes or different subfamilies in these catalogs.

Some notable taxa: 
  • Eupseudosoma involuta (Sepp, 1855)
  • Halysidota leda (Druce, 1880)
  • Halysidota leda leda
  • Halysidota leda enricoi Toulgoët, 1978
  • Halysidota schausi Rothschild, 1909
  • Hypercompe icasia (Cramer, 1777)
  • Opharus bimaculata (Dewitz, 1877)
  • Pachydota albiceps (Walker, 1856)
  • Pseudamastus alsa (Druce, 1890)
  • Pseudamastus alsa alsa
  • Pseudamastus alsa lalannei Toulgoët, 1985
  • Utetheisa ornatrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Source: Wikipedia, article Arctiini sp.. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.





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Species photographs

Count: 6

Foto
Photography ID: 689993
  Adult

Santa Ana
Misiones
Argentina
04/25/2026
Peter Vidana
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Photography ID: 689775
  Adult

Santa Ana
Misiones
Argentina
04/25/2026
Gaston Lisandro Gabinetti
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Photography ID: 594670
  Pupa

Parque del Plata
Canelones
Uruguay
07/31/2024
Giovana Antunez
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Photography ID: 541396
 
Aristóbulo del Valle
Misiones
Argentina
05/28/2023
Elsa Longo
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Photography ID: 397157
  Larva

Pinamar
Buenos Aires
Argentina
05/01/2020
German Sevrain


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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
247890625/04/2026ArgentinaMisionesParque temático de la Cruz, Santa AnaPeter Vidana
247797925/04/2026ArgentinaMisionesSanta AnaGaston Lisandro Gabinetti
212807631/07/2024UruguayCanelonesCanelones - Parque del Plata, Parque del PlataGiovana Antunez
196543002/02/2024ArgentinaBuenos AiresReserva Ecológica Vicente LópezMarcos Garberoglio
179209328/05/2023ArgentinaMisionesParque Provincial Salto Encantado, Aristóbulo del ValleElsa Longo
126552613/05/2020ArgentinaBuenos AiresDel VisoDiego Oscar
124067101/05/2020ArgentinaBuenos AiresPinamar, PinamarGerman Sevrain
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Arctiini sp. – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 14/09/2026.