Species Spilarctia erythrastis (Meyrick, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spilosoma erythrastis Meyrick, E. 1886. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 1(3): 687-802 [753].
• Spilosomia frenchii Lucas, T.P. 1898. Descriptions of Queensland Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 13: 59-86 [59].
• Diacrisia erythrastis diluta Rothschild, L.W. 1914. [Arctiidae, Tiger moths] Arctiinae. pp. 236-263, pls 19-25 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls. [239].
• Spilosomia frenchi Strand, E. 1918. Arctiidae: Subfam. Arctiinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 22: 1-416 [176] [subsequent misspelling].

Generic Combinations

• Diacrisia erythrastis (Meyrick, 1886). —
  Hampson, G.F. 1913. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 13 xiv 609 pp. [269] (also illustrated as Diacrisia erythrastis)
• Spilarctia erythrastis (Meyrick, 1886).

Introduction

Species Spilarctia erythrastis (and S. nobilis) moved from genus Spilosoma on recommendation of T. Edwards (pers. comm. 2020)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes