Arctia intercalaris
species of moth
Arctia intercalaris is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in Dzhungarian Alatau, Zailiiskii Alatau, Tien Shan, Alai-Pamirs, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, the mountains of Afghanistan, north-western Pakistan and from Kashmir to Kulu.
Subspecies
Arctia intercalaris alpherakyii Staudinger, 1886 - Tadzhikistan (Alai-Pamirs)
Arctia intercalaris aurantiaca Seitz, 1910 - North-western Himalayas
Arctia intercalaris elisabethana Bender & Naumann, 1980 - Afghanistan (inc. Badakhsban)
Arctia intercalaris intercalaris (Eversmann, 1843) Kazakhstan (Kyrghyzstan), China (Xinjiang [Tien Shan])
Arctia intercalaris suttadra Moore, 1879 - Pakistan (Azad Kazhmir)
Arctia intercalaris thibetica Felder, 1874 - India (Kashmir, near Tibet)
Arctia intercalaris truncata Kotzsch, 1938 - Afghanistan (inc. Badakhsban)
References
Dubatolov, V.V. 1996. 3. A list of the Arctiinae of the territory of the former U.S.S.R. (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). [In: Three contributions to the knowledge of palearctic Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae]. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 37: 39–87.
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