Definition of Family Arctiidae

1. Noun. Tiger moths.

Exact synonyms: Arctiidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Lepidoptera, Order Lepidoptera
Member holonyms: Arctiid, Arctiid Moth, Callimorpha, Genus Callimorpha, Woolly Bear Moth

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Arctiidae

family Aphyllanthaceae
family Apiaceae
family Apidae
family Aplodontiidae
family Aplysiidae
family Apocynaceae
family Apodidae
family Apogonidae
family Apterygidae
family Aquifoliaceae
family Araceae
family Araliaceae
family Araucariaceae
family Arcellidae
family Arcidae
family Arctiidae (current term)
family Ardeidae
family Arecaceae
family Argasidae
family Argentinidae
family Argiopidae
family Argonautidae
family Ariidae
family Aristolochiaceae
family Armadillidiidae
family Artamidae
family Ascaphidae
family Ascaridae
family Asclepiadaceae
family Asilidae

Literary usage of Family Arctiidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"family Arctiidae (tiger-moths). The moths are usually variegated with bright colours, and the larvae clothed with long hairs. (See Lesson 14. ..."

2. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"... present in the group make it one of the most destructively important families of Lepidoptera in the United States. family Arctiidae (The Tiger Moths). ..."

3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1867)
"... to the sub-family Arctiidae, where I am satisfied it most naturally stands. It is a difficult genus of unusual habitus, and the characters which induce ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1907)
"The Great Leopard Moth is the largest and one of the most beautiful of the moths of the interesting family Arctiidae, or Tiger Moths. ..."

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