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Wood Tiger Moth - Arctia plantaginis

Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SNR


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General Description
This species is diurnal and is not attracted to light.

Shropshire and Tallamy (2025) provide a list, with synonymies, of 13,055 described native, exotic, and occasional straying Lepidoptera species of North America, north of Mexico; known but undescribed taxa, taxa with unresolved taxonomy, and excluded species are also included. The main manuscript includes links to supplementary materials, including a reference list for Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, and a filterable spreadsheet with information on taxonomy, synonymy, size ranges of species, distribution by state, province, and country with references, and host-plant Family and Genus associations with references.

Range Comments
Parasemia plantaginis occurs across most of Canada, north to Alaska and south in the mountains to Arizona. This species was described from Europe, and also inhabits much of Eurasia.

Shropshire and Tallamy (2025) provide link to a supplemental filterable spreadsheet with information on distribution by state, province, and country with references for all Lepidoptera species of North America, north of Mexico.


Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 37

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Food Habits
A generalist on low-growing herbacous plants.


References
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Citation for data on this website:
Wood Tiger Moth — Arctia plantaginis.  Montana Field Guide.  .  Retrieved on , from