Platarctia

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: Arctiina
Genus: Platarctia
Species: P. atropurpurea – P. ornata – P. murzini – P. parthenos – P. souliei
Name

Platarctia Packard, 1864

Type species: Arctia parthenos Harris, 1850, designated by Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Cat. Lepid. Heterocera 1: 257.
References

Dubatolov, V.V., 2005: Description of new taxa of tiger moths from China, with some synonymic notes (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 36 (3/4): 526–537.
Lafontaine, J.D. & Schmidt, B.C. 2013. Comments on differences in classification of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) between Eurasia and North America. ZooKeys 264: 209–217. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.264.4441 Reference page.
Packard, A.S., 1864: Synopsis of the Bombycidæ of the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 97–130, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rönkä, K., Mappes, J., Kaila, L. & Wahlberg, N. 2016. Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera). Systematic Entomology 41(4): 844–853. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12194 Reference page.
Sotavalta, O., 1965: A revision of the genus Hyphoraia Hübner s. lat. (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Annales Entomologici Fennici 31 (3): 159–197, Helsinki.