Arctia brachyptera
(Redirected from Kluane tiger moth)
| Arctia brachyptera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Arctia |
| Species: | A. brachyptera
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| Binomial name | |
| Arctia brachyptera Troubridge & Lafontaine, 2000
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Arctia brachyptera, the Kluane tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by James T. Troubridge and J. Donald Lafontaine in 2000 and is only known from the Yukon in Canada. It occurs in alpine tundra of the Saint Elias Mountains.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Two new species of Arctiidae (Lepidoptera) from the Yukon Territory, Canada Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine