''Spilosoma punctaria'' 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. It was described by

Caspar Stoll Caspar Stoll (Hesse-Kassel, probably between 1725 and 1730 – Amsterdam, December 1791) was a naturalist and entomologist, best known for the completion of ''De Uitlandsche Kapellen'', a work on butterflies begun by Pieter Cramer. He also publis ...

in 1782. 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 admin ...

(Middle Amur, Primorye, southern Kuril Islands), China (Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Yunnan, Dunbei, Jilin, Liaonin, Beijing, Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Tibet),

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republi ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

and Japan."''Spilosoma'' Curtis, 1825"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

References

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''Spilosoma punctaria'' at BHL
punctaria Moths of Asia Taxa named by Caspar Stoll Moths described in 1782 {{Spilosoma-stub