''Catocala patala'' 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 ...

in the family Erebidae first described by Felder and Rogenhofer in 1874. It is found in northern

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, China,

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and Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima)."キシタバ ''Catocala patala'' Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874"
''Japanese Moths''. Retrieved October 20, 2019.

References

patala In Indian religions, Patala (Sanskrit: पाताल, IAST: pātāla, lit. ''that which is below the feet''), denotes the subterranean realms of the universe – which are located under the earthly dimension. Patala is often translated as und ...

Moths described in 1874 Moths of Asia {{Catocalini-stub