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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 afrotropical tiger-moths. An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the afrotropical arctiinae (Lepidoptera: arctiidae). Apollo Books Aps.: Stenstrup, Denmark, 55 pp. Watson, A. (1971). "An illustrated Catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae type in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae ...
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. [1] This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths (or tigers), which usually have bright colours, footmen , which are usually much drabber ...
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.
The subfamily Arctiinae—the tiger moths, ermines, "footmen" and related species—is represented by 32 species in Great Britain: ... garden tiger — throughout ‡*
Pyrrharctia isabella, the Isabella tiger moth, whose larval form is called the banded woolly bear, woolly bear, or woolly worm, occurs in the United States and southern Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was first formally named by James Edward Smith in 1797.
Lophocampa maculata, the Yellow-spotted tussock moth, mottled tiger or spotted halisidota, is a moth of the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths.The species was first described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841.
Arctia virginalis, the Ranchman's tiger moth, is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae.It was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852. [1] [2]It is found in western North America, ranging from southern Monterey Bay in California across Nevada and southern Utah to Colorado and north to southern British Columbia.