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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Spilosomina » Arachnis » Arachnis aulaea - Hodges#8155 (Arachnis aulaea)

Species Arachnis aulaea - Hodges#8155

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Over-running Ramsey Canyon - Arachnis aulaea

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Spilosomina

Genus Arachnis

Species aulaea (Arachnis aulaea - Hodges#8155)

Hodges Number

8155

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Arachnis aulaea Geyer, 1837

Ecpantheria incarnata Walker, 1855

Arachnis aulaea pompeia Druce, 1894

Arachnis bituminosa Seitz, 1919

Arachnis tristis Rothschild, 1935

* phylogenetic sequence #930330

Explanation of Names

Aulaea likely refers to the curtains used in ancient Roman theaters, a theme that Druce carried forward by naming his subspecies pompeia.

See Also

Bruce Walsh on the four species of Arachnis present in southeastern Arizona:

Arachnis picta - the most common.

Arachnis nedyma - a pale version of picta. While picta flies after the monsoons in the desert mountain ranges, nedyma is a rarer pre-monsoon flier in just a few of the ranges in SE Arizona and at elevation (over 6000 feet).

Arachnis aulaea - has a much darker (almost black) hindwing relative to picta. Flies just at the start of the monsoons, and typically a little lower in elevation (around 4000-6000 feet).

Arachnis zuni - truly spectacular, much larger (and more colorful) than picta. Rare, again a pre-monsoon flier at elevation.

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1894. On the larvae of two species of Arachnis. Canadian Entomologist 26(11): 307-309

Holland, W.J. 1915. The moth book. Doubleday, Page & Company. p.124, pl.16, f.1 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Works Cited

1.	The Moth Book W. J. Holland. 1922. Doubleday, Page & Company.

Contributed by Tom Bentley on 15 October, 2007 - 10:14pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 20 July, 2018 - 10:36pm

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