Argina

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Nyctemerina
Genus: Argina
Species: A. astrea
Name

Argina Hübner, 1819

Type species: Phalaena cribraria Clerck, [1764] (=Argina astrea)
Synonyms

Lomaspilis Felder, 1874
Type species: Lomaspilis pantheraria Felder, 1874

References

Felder, C., Felder, R. & Rogenhofen, A.F., 1874-1875: Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodoe B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologische Theil. Wien. Hft IV. Atlas der Heterocera Sphingida-Noctuida 2 (Abt. 2). 1874: Pls. 75-107, 108-120; 1875: Pls 121-140, Erklärung 1-10, Inhalt-verzeichnis 1-20.
Hübner, J., 1816-[1826]: Verzeichnis bekannter Schmetterlinge: 431 pp., Augsburg.

Argina is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.[1] 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. Hindwing 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. Forewing 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. Hindwing with veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. Vein 8 from middle of cell.[2]
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:

Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847)
Argina argus (Kollar, [1847])
Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)
Argina leonina (Walker, [1865])
Argina pantheraria (Felder, 1874)

Former species

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

Mangina syringa (Cramer, 1775)
Mangina pulchra (C. Swinhoe, 1892)

References

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Argina Hübner, 1819". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved October 14, 2020.

Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Dubatolov, V. V. (2010). Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten. Marktleuthen. 65: 1–106.
Kaleka, A.S. & Kirti J.S. (2001) A new genus Mangina along with the taxonomy of Argina Hubner (Arctiinae: Arctiidae: Lepidoptera). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 98 (2): 250–253.