''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 Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, Transcaucasus, Central Asia (mainly in Kazakhstan and Kyrghyzstan), southern Siberia, Mongolia, Amur Region, northern

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 ...

, Korea and

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 ...

( Honshu). The length of the forewings is 18–22 mm for males and 22–25 mm for females. The moth flies June to August depending on the location. The larvae feed on '' Calluna'' and sometimes other herbaceous plants and deciduous trees. The species of the genus ''Rhyparia'', 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. Image:DBP_1992_1602-R.JPG, ''Rhyparia purpurata'' on a German stamp

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''Fauna Europaea''

''Lepiforum e.V.''''De Vlinderstichting''
Spilosomina Moths described in 1758 Moths of Japan Moths of Europe Moths of Asia Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Spilosomina-stub