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purple tiger

Diacrisia purpurata

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Erebidae

Diacrisia purpurata, the purple tiger, is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Europe, Anatolia, Syria, Transcaucasus, Central Asia (mainly in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), southern Siberia, Mongolia, Amur Region, northern China, Korea and Japan (Honshu).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Germany · 157