''Eospilarctia yuennanica'' is a

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of the family

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first described by Franz Daniel in 1943. It is found in

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and

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. The

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is 59–66 mm.

Subspecies

*''Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica'' (China: Sichuan, Yunnan) *''Eospilarctia yuennanica fansipana'' Saldaitis et al., 2012 (Vietnam: Chapa, Mount Fan-si-pan) ''

Eospilarctia guangdonga ''Eospilarctia guangdonga'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov, Yasunori Kishida and Min Wang in 2008. It is found in Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtu ...

'' was formerly treated as a subspecies of ''Eospilarctia yuennanica''.

Gallery

File:Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica male1.jpg, ''Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica'' male File:Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica male.jpg, ''Eospilarctia yuennanica yuennanica'' male File:Eospilarctia yuennanica fansipana male.jpg, ''Eospilarctia yuennanica fansipana'' male

References

Moths described in 1943 Spilosomina {{Spilosomina-stub