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Arctiina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Erebidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Subtribe

Superfamily
  
Noctuoidea

Scientific name
  
Arctiina

Higher classification
  
Arctiini

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Arctiina

Lower classifications
  
Grammia, Garden tiger moth, Apantesis, Fall webworm, Banded woolly bear

The Arctiina are a subtribe of moths in the Erebidae family.

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Taxonomy

The subtribe was previously treated as a higher-level taxon, the Arctiini tribe, within the Arctiidae family of lichen and tiger moths. 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. These changes in rank triggered changes in the suffixes in the names. The Arctiidae family as a whole was reclassified as the Arctiinae subfamily within the Erebidae family. The original subfamilies were lowered to tribes, and the original Arctiini tribe was lowered to subtribe status as Arctiina. Thus the name "Arctiini" used to refer to the subtribe that is the topic of this article, but now that name refers to the tribe that includes this subtribe.

Genera

The following genera are included in the subtribe.

List of genera after: Dubatolov, 2008 and 2010

Other genera that might belong to another tribes

Euerythra and Kodiosoma are now in Phaegopterina.

References

Arctiina Wikipedia