Arctia weigerti

Arctia weigerti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Arctia
Species:	A. weigerti
Binomial name
	Arctia weigerti; de Freina & Witt, 1985
Synonyms
	Oroncus weigerti (de Freina & Witt, 1985);

Arctia weigerti is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Josef J. de Freina and Thomas Joseph Witt in 1985. It is found in northern Pakistan (Karakorum).^[1]

This species, along with the others of the genus Oroncus, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.^[2]

References[]

^ Savela, Markku. "Oroncus weigerti (de Freina & Witt, 1985)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
^ 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). doi:10.1111/syen.12194.

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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[1] Savela, Markku. "Oroncus weigerti (de Freina & Witt, 1985)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 7, 2017.

[Rönkä2016-2] 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). doi:10.1111/syen.12194.

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