''Diacrisia nebulosa'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admini ...

(southern Primorye, Kunashir),

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

(Dunbei, Inner Mongolia),

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

and possibly Korea.''Rhyparioides''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' The species of the genus ''Rhyparioides'', including this one, were moved to ''

Diacrisia ''Diacrisia'' is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schm ...

'' as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.

References

Arctiidae genus list
at ''Butterflies and Moths of the World'' of the Natural History Museum Moths described in 1861 Arctiina {{Arctiina-stub