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Arctia brachyptera

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Arctia brachyptera

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)
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. brachyptera
Binomial name
Arctia brachyptera
Troubridge & Lafontaine, 2000

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]

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