Micralarctia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Spilosomina
Genus: Micralarctia
Species: M. australis – M. dudai – M. punctulatum – M. semipura – M. stictographa – M. toulgoeti
Name

Micralarctia Watson, 1988 [1989]

Type species: Spilosoma punctulatum Wallengren, 1860
References
Primary references

Watson, A., 1988 [1989]: A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica scandinavica 19 (3): 251–291. Abstract: DOI: 10.1163/187631289X00177.

Additional references

Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1-2): 285–301.
Saldaitis, A., Volynkin, A.V. & Hacker, H.H. 2021. Micralarctia dudai, a new species from Socotra Island, Yemen (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Ecologica Montenegrina 46: 61-66. DOI: 10.37828/em.2021.46.3. Open access. Reference page.

Micralarctia is a genus of moth in the family Erebidae from the Afrotropics.
Species

Micralarctia australis Watson, 1988 [1889]
Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860)
Micralarctia punctulatum auricinctum (Butler, 1897)
Micralarctia punctulatum euproctina (Aurivillius, 1899 [1900])
Micralarctia punctulatum pura (Butler, 1878)
Micralarctia semipura (Bartel, 1903)
Micralarctia toulgoeti Watson, 1988 [1889]

References

Watson, A., 1989: A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 19: 251-291.
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog