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 * , you seem to know butterflies. Can you please have a look at this contributor's edits? Drmies (talk) 20:13, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm a copy editor who's been working in Lepidoptera for a while, so I don't really know the accuracy of the changes made, but I'm willing to assume good faith. It would be the most boring and unsatisfying vandalism imaginable if it weren't legitimate. Anything you want to add Bigwhitmer? SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 21:22, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , If you search "arctiine tussock" on Google Scholar, you’ll get zero hits. If you search for it on regular Google, I believe every hit you’ll get will be based on the term being used on Wikipedia.  There are no other sources.


 * Tussock moths are the subfamily Lymantriinae.


 * Tiger moths are the tribe Arctiini which is in the subfamily Arctiinae. Within the Arctiini is the subtribe Phaegopterina.  In Phaegopterina are a few species that have multiple common names with one using the word “tiger” and one using the word “tussock.”  An example is Euchaetes egle which is known as “milkweed tiger” and “milkweed tussock.”  There are also a couple species that only have a common name that includes “tussock.”  An example is Halysidota davisii AKA Davis’ tussock moth.  That said, species with tussock misnomer in the common name are a very small minority within Phaegopterina.  There is no reason to invent the term “arctiine tussock” and apply it to a subtribe that has many more genera than species with a misleading common name.


 * When I was originally fixing the involved genera, I was changing the “Phaegopterina|arctiine tussock moths” wikilink to “subtribe Phaegopterina.” Another editor took exception to that since Phaegopterina was already in the taxobox so I switched to replacing it with “moths” wikilink like most moth genera on Wikipedia. Bigwhitmer (talk) 06:06, 5 September 2019 (UTC)


 * That makes sense to me. Thank you. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 14:51, 5 September 2019 (UTC)