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Acerbia alpina

Acerbia alpina
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Acerbia
Species: A. alpina
Binomial name
Acerbia alpina
(Quensel, 1802)
Synonyms
  • Bombyx alpina Quensel, 1802
  • Arctia alpina (Quensel in Acerbi, 1802)
  • Arctia thulea Dalman, 1823

Acerbia alpina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia, high mountains of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia; also in Alaska and north-western Canada.

The wingspan is 42–50 mm.

The larvae feed on Taraxacum officinale, Vaccinium and Salix herbacea.



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