Acantharctia

Phylum:Arthropoda

Clade:Pancrustacea

Class:Insecta

Order:Lepidoptera

Acantharctia
Acantharctia tenuifasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Spilosomina
Genus:	Acantharctia Aurivillius, 1899 [1900]
Type species
Acantharctia nivea Aurivillius, 1899 [1900]

Acantharctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae, found in the Afrotropics.

This genus consists of 15 species:^[1]

• Acantharctia ansorgei (Rothschild, 1910)
• Acantharctia atriramosa (Hampson, 1907)
• Acantharctia aurivillii (Bartel, 1903)
• Acantharctia bivittata (Butler, 1898)
• Acantharctia flavicosta (Hampson, 1900)
• Acantharctia guineae (Strand, 1912)
• Acantharctia lacteata (Rothschild, 1933)
• Acantharctia latifasciata (Hampson, 1909)
• Acantharctia latifusca (Hampson, 1907)
• Acantharctia metaleuca (Hampson, 1901)
• Acantharctia mundata (Walker, 1865)
• Acantharctia nigrivena (Rothschild, 1935)
• Acantharctia nivea (Aurivillius, 1900)
• Acantharctia tenuifasciata Hampson, 1910)
• Acantharctia vittata (Aurivillius, 1900)

Acantharctia bicoloria (Gaede, 1916) is considered a former species.^{[citation needed]}