Micrarctia

Micrarctia
Micrarctia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Micrarctiini
Genus: Micrarctia
Seitz, 1910
Species: M. trigona
Binomial name
Micrarctia trigona
(Leech, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Nyctemera trigona Leech, 1899
  • Phragmatobia trigona
  • Nyctemera trigona var. nigra Leech, 1899

Micrarctia is a genus of moth in the family Arctiidae. It includes a single species M. trigona (Leech) from Chinese Qinghai and Sichuan. In XX century this genus name was used for many small tiger-moths from different subtribes, later separated into own genera: Palearctia, Sibirarctia, Sinoarctia, Lithosarctia, Sinowatsonia.

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