Argina

For the town in Armenia, see Argina, Armenia.
Argina
Argina amanda. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Nyctemerina
Genus: Argina
Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
  • Alytarchia Wallengren, 1863
  • Alytarchia Wallengren, 1865
  • Xanthesthes Rambur, 1866
  • Lomaspilis Felder, 1874

Argina is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. They are distributed throughout Africa, Mauritius, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, New Guinea and Australia.

Description

Palpi upturned, reaching the vertex of head with short third joint. Antennae ciliated in both sexes. Mid and hind tibia with minute terminal spur pairs. Hind wing of male with a fold on inner margin containing a glandular patch near the base, with a tuft of long hair beyond it. The anal angle produced to a point. Fore wing with veins 3 to 5 from close to angle of cell. Vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 7 and 10 from a long areole formed by the anastomosis of vein 8 and 9. Hind wing with veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. Vein 8 from middle of cell.[1]

Taxonomy

Not long ago it was divided into three genera: Argina (A. cribraria), Alytarchia (A. amanda, A. leonina), Mangina (M. argus, M. syringa, M. pulchra).

Species

The genus includes the following species:

Former species

For Argina argus, the new genus Mangina Kaleka et Kirti, 2001 was described. This genus also contains (Dubatolov, 2010):

References

  1. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.



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