Translingual

Arctia (genus within Arctiidae)

Proper noun

Arctiidae

1. A taxonomic family within the superfamily Noctuoidea – wasp moths.

Hypernyms

• (family): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Amphiesmenoptera - clade; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Noctuoidea - superfamily

References

Arctiidae in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911