Arctia mirifica

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Arctia mirifica is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1892. It is found in western China, Tibet and north-western India.[1][2]

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Arctia mirifica
Photograph of the moth with brown patterns on a background of yellow on the top wing and orange on the bottom wing
Arctia mirifica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. mirifica
Binomial name
Arctia mirifica
(Oberthür, 1892)
Synonyms
  • Preparctia mirifica (Oberthür, 1892)
  • Chelonia mirifica Oberthür, 1892
  • Preparctia romanovi mirifica
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This species, along with the others of the genus Preparctia, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.[3]

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