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The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth [2] (Arctia caja) is a moth of the family Erebidae. Arctia caja is a northern species found in the US, Canada, and Europe. [3] [4] The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as the larvae overwinter, [3] and preferentially chooses host plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
The tribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the subfamily Arctiinae, within the lichen and tiger moth family, Arctiidae. The ranks of the family and its subdivisions were lowered in a recent reclassification while keeping the contents of the family and its subdivisions largely unchanged.
This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths (or tigers), which usually have bright colours, footmen, which are usually much drabber, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms .
Arctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. [1] Therein, it belongs to the subtribe Arctiina in the tribe Arctiini in the subfamily Arctiinae.Species are well distributed throughout North America, Palearctic, India, and Sri Lanka.
Nais tiger moth, Apantesis nais; Harnessed moth, Apantesis phalerata; Garden tiger moth, Arctia caja; Yellow-colored scape moth, Cisseps fulvicollis; Salt marsh moth, Estigmene acrea; Celia's tiger moth, Grammia celia; Figured tiger moth, Grammia figurata; Oithana tiger moth, Grammia oithona; Phyllira tiger moth, Grammia phyllira; Little virgin ...
The family includes the underwings ; litter moths (Herminiinae); tiger, lichen, footman and wasp moths ; tussock moths (Lymantriinae), including the arctic woolly bear moth (Gynaephora groenlandica); [1] fruit-piercing moths (Calpinae and others); micronoctuoid moths (Micronoctuini); snout moths ; and zales, though many of these common names ...
Parasemia plantaginis, wood tiger; Parasemia plantaginis plantaginis — throughout; Parasemia plantaginis insularum — Shetland, Orkney & northern Scotland; Arctia caja, garden tiger — throughout ‡* Arctia villica britannica, cream-spot tiger — south (localized) Hyphoraia testudinaria, Patton's tiger — vagrant: 2 records, Sussex & Devon
The Phaegopterina are a subtribe of tiger moths in the tribe Arctiini, which is part of the family Erebidae. The subtribe was described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892. 469 species of Phaegopterina are present and 52 that are recently [ when? ] discovered in Brazil.