Arctia dejeani is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Jean Baptiste Godart in 1822. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula.

Arctia dejeani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Arctia
Species:
A. dejeani
Binomial name
Arctia dejeani
(Godart, 1822)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hyphoraia dejeani (Godart, 1822)
  • Chelonia dejeani Godart, 1822
  • Hyphoraia dejeani carpetana Agenjo, 1937

The wingspan is 41–42 mm.

The larvae feed on Taraxacum and Plantago species.[2]

This species, along with the others of the genus Hyphoraia, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Savela, Markku. "Hyphoraia dejeani (Godart, 1822)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  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). doi:10.1111/syen.12194. hdl:10138/176841.