Erebidae
930284 –
8164 Arctia alpina
(Quensel, 1802)
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| Distribution: |
Canada: YT, NT; USA: AK.
Type locality (alpina): Lappland
Type locality (johanseni): Alaska. |
Description/
Field Marks: |
See Saldaitis & Ivinskis (2004). |
| Similar Species: |
- Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
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| Synonymy: |
• Bombyx alpina Quensel, 1802
• Hyphoraia sibirica Bang-Haas, 1927
• Arctia thulea Dalman, 1823
• Hyphoraia johanseni Bang-Haas, 1927 |
| Taxonomic Notes: |
Arctia alpina (Quensel, 1802), transferred from the genus Acerbia n. syn. in Ronka et al. (2016), is represented in North America by the subspecies A. a. johanseni Bang-Haas, 1927. All other subspecies are extralimital to NA. |
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| References |
- Bang-Haas, O., 1927. Horae Macrolepidopterologie regionis palaearcticae. Verlag O. Staudinger & Bang-Haas, 1: I-XXVIII, 1-128 S., Taf. 1-10.
- Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
- Quenzel [Quensel], 1802. in Acerbi, G., Section XV. Of the insects and testaceous animals of Lapland. Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799, 2: 254; pl. 1, fig. 4.
- Ronka, K., J. Mappes, L. Kaila, N. Wahlberg, 2016. Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera). Systematic Entomology, 41(4): 844-853.
- Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2004. Some notes about Acerbia alpina with the description of a new subspecies, A. alpina severa (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta, 35(1/2): 91-103.
- Species Page at BugGuide.Net
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