Argina
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- For the town in Armenia, see Argina, ArmeniaArgina, ArmeniaArgina is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The town was named after the Argina Monastery, which is across the border in Turkey....
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Argina is a moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Arctiidae
Arctiidae
Arctiidae is a large and diverse family of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This family includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths , which usually have bright colours, footmen , lichen moths and wasp moths...
. Not long ago it was divided into three genera: Argina (A. cribraria), Alytarchia (A. amanda, A. leonina), Mangina (M. argus, M. syringa, M. pulchra).
Species
SpeciesSpecies
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
include:
- Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847)
- Argina argusArgina argusMangina argus is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in south-east Asia, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan, Hunan, from southern India to Kashmir, the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka....
(Kollar, [1847]) - Argina astreaArgina astreaThe Crotalaria pod borer is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in eastern Africa, southern Asia and Indo-Australia, including the Pacific Islands and Australia.The wingspan is about 40 mm...
(Drury, 1773) - Argina leonina (Walker, [1865])
- Argina pantheraria (Felder, 1874)
Former species
For Argina argusArgina argus
Mangina argus is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in south-east Asia, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan, Hunan, from southern India to Kashmir, the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka....
a new genus Mangina Kaleka et Kirti, 2001 was described; this genus contains also (Dubatolov, 2010):
- Mangina syringa (Cramer, 1775)
- Mangina pulchra (Swinhoe, 1892)