Ornate tiger moth
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Apantesis
Species:
A. ornata
Binomial name
Apantesis ornata
(Packard, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Grammia ornata (Packard, 1864)
  • Callarctia ornata Packard, 1864
  • Apantesis ornata ab. ochracea Stretch, 1872
  • Arctia simplicior Butler, 1881
  • Arctia achaia var. barda H. Edwards, 1881
  • Euprepia (Cymbalophora) blakei var. perpicta Dyar, 1893
  • Arctia achaia var. maculosa Stretch, 1906
  • Arctia achaia var. rivulosa Stretch, 1906
  • Arctia achaia var. ochracea-rivulosa Stretch, 1906
  • Apantesis californica Cassino, 1917
  • Apantesis ornata ab. sulphuricella Strand, 1919

Apantesis ornata, the ornate tiger moth or achaia moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864. It is found in western North America from southern British Columbia through the Pacific Northwest to southern California, northern Utah, and western Wyoming and Montana. It is found in a wide range of habitats, including open woodland.

The length of the forewings is 18.6 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is black with pale yellowish or pinkish-buff band. The hindwings are pale to bright yellow, orange or scarlet with black markings. Adults are on wing from mid-May to late June. Although records from August and September may indicate a partial second generation.[1]

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants.[2] The larvae are covered with long black hairs dorsally and laterally and with red hairs ventrally. It has a yellow-orange middorsal line.

This species was formerly a member of the genus Grammia, but was moved to Apantesis along with the other species of the genera Grammia, Holarctia, and Notarctia.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Schmidt, B.C. 2009: Taxonomic revision of the genus Grammia Rambur (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Arctiinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 156: 507-597. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00496.x
  2. ↑ BugGuide
  3. ↑ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194.
  4. ↑ Schmidt, B. Christian; Lafontaine, J. Donald; Troubridge, James T. (2018). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV". ZooKeys (252): 241–252. doi:10.3897/zookeys.252.28500. PMC 6189224. PMID 30337831.


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