Diacrisia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819.[1] Its species can be found in Europe and Asia.

Diacrisia
Diacrisia sannio
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Subtribe: Arctiina
Genus: Diacrisia
Hübner, 1819
Synonyms
  • Euthemonia Stephens, 1828

The species of the genera Rhyparia and Rhyparioides were placed in Diacrisia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.[2]

Species edit

Diacrisia amurensis (Bremer, 1861)
Diacrisia aspersa
Diacrisia aurapsa Swinhoe, 1905
Diacrisia echo Rothschild, 1910
Diacrisia irene Butler, 1881
Diacrisia metelkana (Lederer, 1861)
Diacrisia nebulosa (Butler, 1877)
Diacrisia porthesioides Rothschild, 1910
Diacrisia purpurata (Linnaeus, 1758) Purple Tiger
Diacrisia sannio (Linnaeus, 1758) Clouded Buff
Diacrisia sublutea
Diacrisia subvaria (Walker, 1855)

References edit

  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Diacrisia Hübner, [1819]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  2. ^ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194.

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