Diacrisia amurensis explained

Diacrisia amurensis is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Otto Vasilievich Bremer in 1861. It is found in the Russian Far East (Amur basin, Primorye), China, Korea and Japan.^[1]

The species of the genus Rhyparioides, including this one, were moved to Diacrisia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.

Subspecies

• Diacrisia amurensis amurensis
• Diacrisia amurensis nipponensis Kishida & Inomata, 1981

References

• Arctiidae genus list at Butterflies and Moths of the World of the Natural History Museum

Notes and References

1. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/rhyparioides/index.html Rhyparioides