Diacrisia nebulosa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in the Russian Far East (southern Primorye, Kunashir), China (Dunbei, Inner Mongolia), Japan and possibly Korea.[1]

Diacrisia nebulosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Diacrisia
Species:
D. nebulosa
Binomial name
Diacrisia nebulosa
Butler, 1877
Synonyms
  • Rhyparioides nebulosa (Butler, 1881)
  • Rhyparioides simplicior Butler, 1881

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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Rhyparioides at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194. hdl:10138/176841.