Arctia testudinaria

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Patton's tiger

Male - Bolzano, Italy
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Arctia
Species:	A. testudinaria
Binomial name
*Arctia testudinaria* (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
Synonyms
Hyphoraia testudinaria (Geoffroy, 1785) Phalaena testudinaria Geoffroy, 1785 Bombyx maculania Lang, 1789 Phalaena curialis Esper, 1789 Bombyx civica Hübner, 1790 Arctia maculata Caradja, 1893 Arctia testudinaria f. crocea Schultz, 1908 Hyphoraia meridialpina Daniel, 1939

Arctia testudinaria, or Patton's tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Geoffroy in 1785. It is found from northern Spain to southern and central France and southern Switzerland to north-eastern and southern Italy. It has also been recorded from Great Britain.^[1] The habitat consists of grasslands, slopes, forest edges, clear dry forests, cliffs and mountain slopes, maquis, garrigues and dry meadows.^[2]

The wingspan is 35–45 mm.^[3] Adults are on wing in May and July.

The larvae feed on various low-growing plants, including Plantago, Rumex, Achillea, Euphorbia cyparissias, Potentilla, Hieracium, Taraxacum, Cynoglossum, Deschampsia, Calamagrostis.^[4] The species overwinters in the larval stage. Pupation often takes place under flat stones.

This species, along with the others of the genus Hyphoraia, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.^[5]

References

^ Patton's tiger on UKMoths
^ Lepidoptera and Their Ecology
^ Hants Moths
^ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
^ 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.

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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Fauna Europaea

Taxon identifiers
Hyphoraia testudinaria	Wikidata: Q13531066 Wikispecies: Hyphoraia testudinaria BOLD: 459657 EUNIS: 309193 Fauna Europaea: 446976 Fauna Europaea (new): 0cdaa18c-6054-4df7-8be5-f25618ed3ed7 GBIF: 1816889 iNaturalist: 550419 IRMNG: 10316223 LepIndex: 42530 MaBENA: HyphTest NBN: NHMSYS0021144400 Open Tree of Life: 3187972

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