Artona

Artona discivitta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zygaenoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Superfamilia: Zygaenoidea

Familia: Zygaenidae
Subfamilia: Procridinae
Tribus: Artonini
Genus: Artona
Subgenera (3): A. (Artona) – A. (Balataea) – A. (Pseudosesidia)

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Unresolved species: A. cuneonotata – A. elegantior – A. intermediana – A. octomaculata – A. superba – A. uniformis

Name

Artona Walker, 1854: 439

Type species: Artona discivitta Walker, 1854 (by monotypy).

Synonymy

• Zeuxippa Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
  • Type species: Sphinx pulchra Drury, 1773: 52, by monotypy

References

Primary references

• Walker, F. 1854a. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Lepidoptera Heterocera. British Museum (Natural History), London. 279–581. full article (BHL). Reference page. 

Additional references

• Alberti, B., 1954: Über die stammesgeschichtliche Gliederung der Zygaenidae nebst Revision einiger Gruppen (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 30: 115–480.
• Efetov, K.A. & Tarmann, G.M. 1995. An annotated check-list of the Palaearctic Procridinae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae), with descriptions of new taxa. Entomologist’s Gazette 46: 63–103. Full article (PDF).Reference page. 
• Efetov, K.A. & Tarmann, G.M. 2012: A Checklist of the Palaearctic Procridinae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae). Crimean State Medical University Press: 1–108. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

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