Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Noctuoidea Subtribe Nyctemerina Rank Genus | Class Insecta Family Erebidae Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | |
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Similar Argina astrea, Butterflies and moths, Nyctemera, Utetheisa lotrix, Amerila | ||
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Argina is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. They are distributed throughout Africa, Mauritius, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, New Guinea and Australia.
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Description
Palpi upturned, reaching the vertex of head with short third joint. Antennae ciliated in both sexes. Mid and hind tibia with minute terminal spur pairs. Hind wing of male with a fold on inner margin containing a glandular patch near the base, with a tuft of long hair beyond it. The anal angle produced to a point. Fore wing with veins 3 to 5 from close to angle of cell. Vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 7 and 10 from a long areole formed by the anastomosis of vein 8 and 9. Hind wing with veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. Vein 8 from middle of cell.
Taxonomy
Not long ago it was divided into three genera: Argina (A. cribraria), Alytarchia (A. amanda, A. leonina), Mangina (M. argus, M. syringa, M. pulchra).
Species
The genus includes the following species:
Former species
For Argina argus, the new genus Mangina Kaleka et Kirti, 2001 was described. This genus also contains (Dubatolov, 2010):