Arctia flavia (Fuessly, 1779)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Erebidae → subfamily Arctiinae → tribe Arctiini → subtribe Arctiina → genus Arctia → species Arctia flavia

Species name(s)

Arctia flavia (Fuessly, 1779) = Phalaena flavia Fuessly, 1779 = Bombyx flavia Fuessly, 1779 = Bombyx virgo Hübner, 1804 = Arctia flavia uralensis Heyne, 1899 = Arctia flavia sibirica Heyne, 1899 = Arctia flavia lederi O. Bang-Haas, 1927 = Arctia flavia baicalensis O. Bang-Haas, 1927 = Arctia jeholensis O. Bang-Haas, 1927 = Phragmatobia flavia. [9, 10]

Yellow Tiger Moth.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, the Soviet Union - the European part of, Switzerland. [1].
Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy (mainland), Russia, Ukraine, France (mainland), Switzerland. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Taraxacum, Leontodon, Cotoneaster, Urtica, Aconitum. [28].

Subspecies of Arctia flavia

Arctia flavia jeholensis Bang-Haas, 1927. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Grigoriy Grigoriev, Tatyana Gordeeva.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org