Arctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. 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.
As a result of phylogenetic studies by Rönkä et al. in 2016, the following genera were determined to be synonyms with Arctia, and their species were reclassified in this genus.
Acerbia Ammobiota Atlantarctia Borearctia Callarctia Chionophila Eupsychoma Gonerda Nemeophila Oroncus Pararctia Platarctia Platyprepia Preparctia Sinoarctia
Description Palpi porrect (extending forward), reaching beyond the frons where the first two joints are hairy. Antennae bipectinated in male, with short branches swollen at extremity, and with a terminal bristle, whereas female has serrate. Legs hairy with hind tibia bears two spur pairs. Forewings rather short and broad.
Species These species belong to the genus Arctia:
Arctia allardi (Oberthür, 1911) Arctia alpina (Quensel, 1802) Arctia aulica (Linnaeus, 1758) Lady-in-Waiting Arctia brachyptera (Troubridge & Lafontaine, 1999) Kluane Tiger Moth Arctia buddenbrocki (Kotzsch, 1929) Arctia bundeli (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2004) Arctia caja (Linnaeus, 1758) Garden Tiger Moth Arctia churkini (Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Witt, 2003) Arctia confluens (Romanoff, 1884) Arctia cornuta (Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Witt, 2004 2004: Acerbia cornuta spec. nov. and Acerbia seitzi micropuncta subspec. nov. from Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Atalanta 35 (3/4): 415-425.)) Arctia cupido (Kishida, 1995) Arctia dejeani (Godart, 1822) Arctia dido (Wagner, 1841) Arctia elisabethae (Kotzsch, 1939) Arctia festiva (Hufnagel, 1766) Hebe Tiger Moth Arctia flavia (Fuessly, 1779) Arctia forsteri (Daniel, 1943) Arctia gurkoi (Dubatolov, 2004) Arctia hannyngtoni (Hampson, 1910) Arctia intercalaris (Eversmann, 1843) Arctia kasnakovi (Dubatolov, 1987) Arctia khumbeli (Bang-Haas, 1927) Arctia kolpakofskii (Alpheraky, 1882) Arctia ladakensis (Bang-Haas, 1927) Arctia lapponica (Thunberg, 1791) Lapland Tiger Moth Arctia marchandi (de Freina, 1983) Arctia martinhoneyi (Dubatolov & Gurko, 2005) Arctia matronula (Linnaeus, 1758) Arctia menetriesii (Eversmann, 1846) Arctia mirifica (Oberthur, 1892) Arctia murzini (Dubatolov, 2005) Arctia oberthueri (Oberthür, 1890) Arctia olschwangi (Dubatolov, 1990) Arctia opulenta (Edwards, 1881) Opulent Tiger Moth Arctia ornata (Staudinger, 1896) Arctia parthenos (Harris, 1850) St. Lawrence Tiger Moth Arctia perornata (Moore, 1879) Arctia plantaginis (Linnaeus, 1758) Wood Tiger Arctia romanovi (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) Arctia rueckbeili (Pungeler, 1901) Arctia seitzi (Bang-Haas, 1910) Arctia sieversi (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) Arctia souliei (Oberthur, 1903) Arctia subnebulosa (Dyar, 1899) Arctia tancrei (Staudinger, 1887) Arctia testudinaria (Geoffroy, 1785) Patton's Tiger Arctia thibetica (Felder, 1874) Arctia tigrina (Villers, 1789) Arctia tundrana (Tshistjakov, 1990) Arctia ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1924) Arctia villica (Linnaeus, 1758) Cream-spot Tiger Arctia virginalis (Boisduval, 1852) Ranchman's Tiger Moth Arctia weigerti (de Freina & Witt, 1985) Arctia yarrowii (Stretch, 1874) Mountain Tiger Moth
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