{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Arcte coerula mounted.jpg | image_caption = ''Arcte coerula'' | taxon = Arcte | authority = Kollar, [1844] | synonyms = *''Cocytodes'' <small>Guenée, 1852</small> }} '''''Arcte''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Vincenz Kollar in 1844.
==Description== Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, and short third joint. Antennae quite simple. Thorax and abdomen clothed with long hair. Abdomen<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |volume=Moths - Vol. II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref> in male with a strongly ridged chitinous rasp on center of dorsum of penultimate segment, probably played on by the strong chitinous spurs of the hindlegs. Tibia fringed with long hairs.
==Species== * ''Arcte coerula'' <small>Guenée, 1852</small> * ''Arcte granulata'' <small>(Guenée, 1852)</small> * ''Arcte modesta'' <small>(Hoeven, 1840)</small> * ''Arcte polygrapha'' <small>Kollar, [1844]</small> * ''Arcte taprobana'' <small>Moore, 1885</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite web |editor-last=Savela |editor-first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/arcte/ |title=''Arcte'' Kollar, [1844] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113182251/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/arcte/ |archive-date=January 13, 2019 |url-status=dead}} *{{cite journal |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=2525.0 |title=''Arcte'' Kollar, 1844 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |doi=10.5519/s93616qw |accessdate=February 13, 2020}}
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Category:Noctuidae Category:Moth genera Category:Taxa named by Vincenz Kollar
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