Chionarctia

Chionarctia
Chionarctia nivea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Spilosomina
Genus:	Chionarctia Kôda, 1988
Type species
Dionychopus nivea Ménétriès, 1859
Synonyms
Gigantospilosoma Dubatolov, 1990

Chionarctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae erected by Nobutoyo Kôda in 1859. The moths in the genus are found in east Asia.

Species

• Chionarctia nivea (Ménétriés, 1859)
• Chionarctia pura (Leech, 1899)

References

• Dubatolov, V. V., 1990: New taxa of tiger moths (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae) from the Palearctic. 2-nd report. In: Taxonomy of insects and helminths: 89-101, Nauka, Siberian Department: Novosibirsk. (Series “New and little known species of Siberian fauna”, No. 22) (in Russian).
• Kôda, N., 1988: A Generic Classification of the Subfamily Arctiinae of the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions based on the Male and Female Genitalia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Part II. Tyô to Ga 39 (1): 1-79, Tokyo.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chionarctia.

Wikispecies has information related to Chionarctia.

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

This Spilosomina-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e