Apantesis virgo

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Apantesis virgo

Male Virgin Tiger Moth
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Apantesis
Species:	A. virgo
Binomial name
*Apantesis virgo* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Grammia virgo (Linnaeus, 1758) Bombyx virgo Linnaeus, 1758 Euprepia virgo var. citrinaria Neumoegen & Dyar, 1893 Grammia virgo f. simplex Stretch, 1906

Apantesis virgo, the virgin tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.^[1]^[2] It is found in North America from Newfoundland south to Florida west to Alberta.

The wingspan is about 56 mm.^[3]

The larvae feed on various low-growing plants, including Thermopsis rhombifolia and Plantago species.^[4] The species overwinters in the larval stage.^[5]

This species was formerly a member of the genus Grammia, but was moved to Apantesis along with the other species of the genera Grammia, Holarctia, and Notarctia.^[6]^[7]

Subspecies

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Apantesis virgo virgo (from the Great Lakes region and Atlantic seaboard south through New England, to at least West Virginia. In the west, the range extends to north-eastern British Columbia)
Apantesis virgo gigas B. C. Schmidt, 2009 (south-eastern United States, including the Great Smoky Mountains, south to Georgia and northern Florida)^[8]

References

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^ Savela, Markku. "Grammia virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
^ "930244.00 – 8197 – Apantesis virgo – Virgin Tiger Moth – (Linnaeus, 1758)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
^ "Grammia virgo". Insect Fauna of Tallgrass Prairies. North Dakota State University. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
^ Schmidt, B. C. & Robinson, E. "Species Details Grammia virgo". University of Alberta Museums. E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ Cotinis (December 20, 2016). "Species Apantesis virgo - Virgin Tiger Moth - Hodges#8197". BugGuide. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194. hdl:10138/176841.
^ Schmidt, B. Christian; Lafontaine, J. Donald; Troubridge, James T. (2018). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV". ZooKeys (252): 241–252. doi:10.3897/zookeys.252.28500. PMC 6189224. PMID 30337831.
^ Schmidt, B. C. (2009). "Taxonomic revision of the genus Grammia Rambur (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Arctiinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156: 507-597. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00496.x

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Taxon identifiers
Grammia virgo	Wikidata: Q5593705 Wikispecies: Grammia (Grammia) virgo BAMONA: Grammia-virgo BOLD: 10486 BugGuide: 3068 GBIF: 1806170 iNaturalist: 127402 IRMNG: 10325622 ITIS: 938914 LepIndex: 42245 MONA: 8197 NatureServe: 2.113725 NCBI: 214157 Observation.org: 950651 Open Tree of Life: 115323

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