- Scarlet tiger moth
Taxobox
name = Scarlet Tiger Moth
image_width = 250px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia = Arctiidae
genus = "Callimorpha "
species = "C. dominula"
binomial = "Callimorpha dominula"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus,1758
synonyms ="Panaxia dominula"The Scarlet Tiger Moth ("Callimorpha dominula", formerly "Panaxia dominula") is a colorful moth of Europe and western and central Asia (Dubatalov n.d.). It belongs to the tiger moth family,
Arctiidae .The
caterpillar s feed mostly oncomfrey ("Symphytum officinale"). The imagines fly by day.It can occur in rare colour forms, one with yellow hindwings and body and one with extended black on hindwings.
The three morph occurring in the population at the
Cothill reserve inOxfordshire , Britain, have been the subject of considerable genetic study (McNamara 1998).McNamara (1998) describes how amateurs can rear this species.
Gallery
References
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* Fisher, R.A. and
E.B. Ford (1947). The spread of a gene in natural conditions in a colony of the moth "Panaxia dominula" L. "Heredity" 1:143–174 [http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/digitised/fisher/219.pdf PDF 1.8MB]* Fisher, R.A. and E.B. Ford (1950). The "Sewall Wright" effect "Heredity" 4:117–119 [http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/digitised/fisher/239.pdf PDF 183KB]
* Ford, E.B. and P.M. Sheppard (1969). The medionigra polymorphism of "Panaxia dominula". "Heredity" 24:112–134.
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* Sheppard, P.M. (1951). A quantitive study of two populations of the moth "Panaxia dominula" (L.) "Heredity" 5:349–378
* Sheppard, P.M. (1952). A note on non-random mating in the moth "Panaxia dominula" L. "Heredity" 5 349–378
* Sheppard, P.M. and L.M. Cook (1962). The manifold effects of the medionigra gene of the moth "Panaxia dominula" and the maintenance of polymorphism. "Heredity" 17:415–426.
* Wright, S. (1948). On the roles of directed and random changes in the frequency of genetics of populations "Evolution" 2:279–294.
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