Interesting Facts
Description
Family Arctiidae
'The Arctiidae are members
of the Superfamily
Noctuoidea. Worldwide in distribution, moths of this family
are richest in the tropics. The small to medium-sized adults
are often white, yellow, orange, or red with black markings on the forewings
. Some adults are day-fliers, while others are nocturnal
. Larvae are typically very hairy
; some tiger
moth larvae are called "woolly
bears." Larvae feed on lichens as well as herbaceous and woody plants
, and some species are forest
pests. Pupation takes place in cocoons
made of matted
larval hair and little or no silk
.
'[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
()
- Heymons, 1901
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
()
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
()
- Class:
Insecta
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Insects
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
()
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
()
- Cohort:
Myoglossata
()
- Superorder:
Amphiesmenoptera
()
- Order:
Lepidoptera
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Butterflies and Moths
- Suborder:
Glossata
()
- Infraorder:
Heteroneura
()
- Superfamily:
Noctuoidea
()
- Superfamily:
Noctuoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Heteroneura
(
- Suborder:
Glossata
(
- Order:
Lepidoptera
(
- Superorder:
Amphiesmenoptera
(
- Cohort:
Myoglossata
(
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
(
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
(
- Class:
Insecta
(
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
(
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Drymonia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
D. ruficornis (Lunar Marbled Brown)
More Info
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Further Reading
- An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam: together with their distribution and synonymy / by A. Pulle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1906. url p. 420, p. 522.
- Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley, Louis O. Williams, Dorothy Nash Gibson. 24 1974 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1974. url list of illustration , p. 274, p. 279, fig. 55, page 280.
- Flora of the islands of Margarita and Coche, Venezuela / by John Robert Johnston. Boston: Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 1909. url p. 260, p. 280, p. 286.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 263.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 325.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:
- Arizona State University, International Institute for Species Exploration: Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas: Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJÍO)
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-XAL)
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
- Herbier de la Guyane
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax
- SysTax: Herbarium Universitat Ulm
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3433971
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:380742-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 734783
Footnotes
- http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=32&sci=Arctiidae&com=Tiger Moths and Lichen Moths [back]
- Mean = 457.350 meters (1,500.492 feet), Standard Deviation = 856.380 based on 339 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
