''Epimydia'' is a
monotypic tiger moth
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genus in the family
Erebidae
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. Its only species, ''Epimydia dialampra'', can be found in mountainous steppe areas in southern
Siberia, eastern
Yakutia and northern
Mongolia. Both the genus and species were
first described by
Otto Staudinger in 1892.
Females are very small and
brachypterous.
References
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Callimorphina
Moths described in 1892
Monotypic moth genera
Moths of Asia
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