Argina

For the place, see Argina, Armenia.

Argina is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.^[1] They are distributed throughout Africa, Mauritius, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, New Guinea and Australia.

Argina
Mounted Argina amanda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Nyctemerina
Genus:	Argina Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
Alytarchia Wallengren, 1863 Alytarchia Wallengren, 1865 Xanthesthes Rambur, 1866 Lomaspilis Felder, 1874

Description

Palpi upturned, reaching the vertex of head with short third joint. Antennae ciliated in both sexes. Mid and hind tibia with minute terminal spur pairs. Hindwing of male with a fold on inner margin containing a glandular patch near the base, with a tuft of long hair beyond it. The anal angle produced to a point. Forewing with veins 3 to 5 from close to angle of cell. Vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 7 and 10 from a long areole formed by the anastomosis of vein 8 and 9. Hindwing with veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. Vein 8 from middle of cell.^[2]

Taxonomy

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

The genus includes the following species:

• Argina amanda (Boisduval, 1847)
• Argina argus (Kollar, [1847])
• Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)
• Argina leonina (Walker, [1865])
• Argina pantheraria (Felder, 1874)

Former species

For Argina argus, the new genus Mangina Kaleka & Kirti, 2001 was described. This genus also contains (Dubatolov, 2010):

• Mangina syringa (Cramer, 1775)
• Mangina pulchra (C. Swinhoe, 1892)

References

1. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Argina Hübner, 1819". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• Dubatolov, V. V. (2010). Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten. Marktleuthen. 65: 1–106.
• Kaleka, A.S. & Kirti J.S. (2001) A new genus Mangina along with the taxonomy of Argina Hubner (Arctiinae: Arctiidae: Lepidoptera). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 98 (2): 250–253.