Arctia menetriesii explained

Arctia menetriesii, the Menetries' tiger moth, is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1846.^[1] It is found in Karelia, Oktyabrskoe, northeastern Kazakhstan, Altai Mountains, Sayan Mountains, Evenkia, Yakutia, the central Amur region, Primorsky Krai and central Sakhalin. It was believed to be extinct in Fennoscandia, but the species has been recently recorded in Finland.

Larvae feed on Aconitum rubicundum, Taraxacum, Plantago and Polygonum species.^[2]

This species was formerly the sole member of the genus Borearctia, but was transferred to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.

References

• Web site: Pitkin . Brian . Jenkins . Paul . amp . November 5, 2004 . Borearctia Dubatolov, 1984 . Butterflies and Moths of the World . Natural History Museum, London . August 6, 2019.

Further reading

• Data about all species records were summarized in the paper: Bolotov, I. N.; Gofarov, M. Yu.; Kolosova, Yu. S. & Frolov, A. A. (2013). "Occurrence of Borearctia menetriesii (Eversmann, 1846) (Erebidae: Arctiinae) in Northern European Russia: a new locality in a disjunct species range". Nota Lepidopterologica. 36 (1): 65–75.

External links

• Atlas of Siberian Lepidoptera
• Records from Finland
• Conservation ecology of Borearctia menetriesii
• Fauna Europaea

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . Borearctia Dubatolov, 1984 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . August 6, 2019.
2. https://nl.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4630 "Record of Borearctia menetriesii (Eversmann, 1846) (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) larva on Aconitum rubicundum Fischer (Ranunculaceae) in Eastern Siberia"