''Spilosoma'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...
originally described by
John Curtis
John Ream Curtis (born May 10, 1960) is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Utah. A member of the Republican Party, Curtis served from 2017 to 2025 as the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congre ...
in 1825. A very heterogeneous group, it is in need of review by the scientific community, as certain species probably need reclassification into their own genera.
Description
Palpi short, porrect (extending forward) and fringed with hair. Antennae bipectinate (comb like on both sides) in male and serrate in female. Mid tibia with a terminal pair of minute spurs and hind tibia with two spur pairs. Forewings are rather long and narrow. Veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Vein 6 from upper angle and veins 7 to 10 are stalked. Hindwings with veins 3 to 5 from angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. Vein 8 from middle of cell. Female with an abdominal tuft developed in most cases.
Species more or less related to the type species
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Spilosoma congrua
The agreeable tiger moth (''Spilosoma congrua''), also known as the New Hope tiger moth (''Spilosoma spesnova''), is one of three species of white tiger moth which are common in the United States. It has pronounced black eyes, white abdomen
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Walker, 1855 – agreeable tiger moth, white-bodied estigmene
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Spilosoma daitoensis''
Matsumura, 1930
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Spilosoma dubia
''Spilosoma dubia'', the dubious tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found from south-eastern Canada west to Alberta and in the eastern United States. The habitat consists of aspen par ...
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(Walker, 1855) – dubious tiger moth
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Spilosoma ericsoni
''Spilosoma ericsoni'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Georg Semper in 1899. It is found on Borneo.
Some sources classify it under the genus ''Spilarctia''.
References
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Moths described in 1899
Spilosoma, ericsoni
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(Semper, 1899)
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Spilosoma erythrozona
''Spilosoma erythrozona'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vincenz Kollar in 1844. It is found in China (south-western Xinjiang, Tibet), eastern Afghanistan and Himalaya
The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain ra ...
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(Kollar, 844
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Spilosoma extrema
''Spilosoma extrema'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1943. It is found in Yunnan, China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, ...
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Daniel, 1943
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Spilosoma fujianensis''
Fang, 1981
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Spilosoma inexpectata''
Rothschild, 1933
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Spilosoma latipennis''
Stretch, 1872 – pink-legged tiger moth, red-legged diacrisia
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Spilosoma likiangensis''
Daniel, 1943
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Spilosoma lubricipeda
''Spilosoma lubricipeda'', the white ermine, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found throughout the temperate belt of Eurasia from Europe through Kazakhstan and southern Siberia to Amur Region, China, Korea and Japan. In China several sibli ...
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(Linnaeus, 1758) – white ermine
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Spilosoma lutea
The buff ermine (''Spilarctia luteum'') is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is sometimes placed in the genus ''Spilosoma''. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found throughout the temperate belt of the P ...
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(Hufnagel, 1766) – buff ermine
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Spilosoma ningyuenfui
''Spilosoma ningyuenfui'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1943. It is found in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a po ...
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Daniel, 1943
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Spilosoma pelopea''
(Druce, 1897)
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Spilosoma punctaria
''Spilosoma punctaria'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. It is found in the Russian Far East (Middle Amur, Primorye, southern Kuril Islands), China (Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Heilongji ...
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(Stoll, 782
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Spilosoma reticulata''
Rothschild, 1933
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Spilosoma rostagnoi
''Spilosoma rostagnoi'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1911. It is found in Sichuan, China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population o ...
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Oberthür, 1911
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Spilosoma rubidus
''Spilosoma rubidus'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1890. It is found in China (Beijing, Hubei, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Hebei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jilin, Shanxi, Henan, Guangxi, ...
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(Leech, 1890)
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Spilosoma semialbescens
''Spilosoma semialbescens'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by George Talbot in 1929. It is found on Seram Island
Seram (formerly spelled Ceram; also Seran or Serang) is the largest and main island of Maluku province of ...
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Talbot, 1929
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Spilosoma urticae
''Spilosoma urticae'', the water ermine, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in temperate belt of the Palearctic realm like similar '' Spilosoma lubricipedum'', but prefers drier biotopes. So, ''S. urticae'' is more abundant in steppes ...
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(Esper, 1789) – water ermine
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Spilosoma vestalis
''Spilosoma vestalis'', the Vestal tiger-moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864. It is found along the coast of western North America, from California north to the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington ...
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Packard, 1864 – vestal tiger-moth
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Spilosoma virginica
''Spilosoma virginica'' is a species of moth in the subfamily Arctiinae occurring in the United States and southern Canada. As a caterpillar, it is known as the yellow woolly bear or yellow bear caterpillar. As an adult, it is known as the Virgi ...
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Fabricius, 1798 – Virginia tiger moth
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Spilosoma yemenensis
''Spilosoma yemenensis'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1916. It is found in Yemen
Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it bor ...
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(Hampson, 1916)
Erythrophleps species group
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Spilosoma ignivagans
''Spilosoma ignivagans'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1919. It is found in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a pop ...
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Rothschild, 1919
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Spilosoma erythrophleps
''Spilosoma erythrophleps'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1894. It is found in Assam, India.
Description
Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish orange; palpi and frons black; collar and tegulae with paired bl ...
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Hampson, 1894
Subgenus ''Rhagonis'' Walker, 1862 or a separate genus
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Spilosoma danbyi
''Spilosoma danbyi'', or Danby's tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Berthold Neumoegen and Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1893. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Washington and western Canada ...
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(Neumögen & Dyar, 1893) – Danby's tiger moth
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Spilosoma pteridis
''Spilosoma pteridis'', the brown tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1875. It is found in the United States in western Oregon and Washington, British Columbia and northern Idaho. The habitat consis ...
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H. Edwards, 1875 – brown tiger moth
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Spilosoma vagans''
(Boisduval, 1852) – wandering tiger moth
Subgenus ''Rhodareas'' Kirby, 1892
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Spilosoma melanopsis''
(Walker, 865
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''Spilosoma sensu lato'' species not congeneric to the type species
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Spilosoma albiventre''
Kiriakoff, 1963
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Spilosoma atrivenata''
Rothschild, 1933
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Spilosoma batesi''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma baxteri''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma bipartita''
Rothschild, 1933
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Spilosoma brunneomixta''
Toulgoët, 1971
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Spilosoma buryi''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma castelli''
Rothschild, 1933
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Spilosoma crossi''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma curvilinea''
Walker, 1855
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Spilosoma dufranei''
Kiriakoff, 1965
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Spilosoma feifensis''
Wiltshire, 1986
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Spilosoma flavidior''
Gaede, 1923
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Spilosoma gynephaea''
(Hampson, 1901)
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Spilosoma hercules''
(Toulgoët, 1956)
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Spilosoma heterogenea''
Bartel, 1903
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Spilosoma holoxantha''
(Hampson, 1907)
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Spilosoma immaculata''
Bartel, 1903
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Spilosoma jordani''
Debauche, 1938
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Spilosoma jussiaeae''
(Poey, 1832)
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Spilosoma karschi''
Bartel, 1903
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Spilosoma latiradiata''
(Hampson, 1901)
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Spilosoma maniemae''
Kiriakoff, 1965
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Spilosoma mediocinerea''
(Toulgoët, 1956)
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Spilosoma mediopunctata''
(Pagenstecher, 1903)
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Spilosoma melanimon''
Mabille, 1880
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Spilosoma nigrocastanea''
(Rothschild, 1917)
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Spilosoma nigrocincta''
(Kenrick, 1914)
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Spilosoma nyasana''
Rothschild, 1933
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Spilosoma occidens''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma pales''
(Druce, 1910)
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Spilosoma pauliani''
(Toulgoët, 1956)
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Spilosoma pellucida''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma penultimum''
Kiriakoff, 1965
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Spilosoma pseudambrensis''
(Toulgoët, 1961)
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Spilosoma quadrimacula''
Toulgoët, 1977
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Spilosoma rava''
(Druce, 1898)
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Spilosoma tenuivena''
Kiriakoff, 1965
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Spilosoma togoensis''
Bartel, 1903
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Spilosoma turlini''
Toulgoët, 1973
Species of unclear status
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Spilosoma alberti''
(Rothschild, 1914)
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Spilosoma alticola''
Rogenhofer, 1891
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Spilosoma cajetani''
Rothschild, 1910
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Spilosoma clasnaumanni''
Kühne, 2005
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Spilosoma clava''
(Wileman, 1910)
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Spilosoma eldorado''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma euryphlebia''
(Hampson, 1903)
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Spilosoma fraterna''
(Rothschild, 1910)
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Spilosoma fumida''
(Wileman, 1910)
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Spilosoma fuscipennis''
Hampson, 1894
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Spilosoma fusifrons''
Walker, 865
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* King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. Carloman receives Bavaria (with more l ...
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* '' Spilosoma metaleuca'' (Hampson, 1905)
* '' Spilosoma obliqua'' (Walker, 1855)
* '' Spilosoma roseata'' (Rothschild, 1910)
* '' Spilosoma sagittifera'' Moore, 1888
* '' Spilosoma semperi'' (Rothschild, 1910)
* ''Spilosoma submargininigra
''Spilosoma'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae originally described by John Curtis (entomologist), John Curtis in 1825. A very heterogeneous group, it is in need of review by the scientific community, as certain species probably need re ...
'' Černý, 2014
* '' Spilosoma sumatrana'' (Swinhoe, 1905)
* '' Spilosoma virgulae'' Černý, 2011
* '' Spilosoma wahri'' Rothschild, 1933
* '' Spilosoma wildi'' De Vos, 2013
* ''Spilosoma wilemani
''Spilosoma wilemani'' is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1914. It is found in Taiwan and Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands
The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands t ...
'' (Rothschild, 1914)
* '' Spilosoma withaari'' De Vos, 2013
Species separated into '' Ardices''
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Spilosoma canescens''
Butler, 1875 – dark-spotted tiger moth
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Spilosoma curvata''
Donovan, 1805 – crimson tiger moth
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Spilosoma glatignyi''
(Le Guillou, 1841) – black and white tiger moth
Species separated into '' Toulgarctia''
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Spilosoma griveaudi''
(Toulgoët, 1957)
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Spilosoma luteoradians''
(Toulgoët, 1954)
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Spilosoma milloti''
(Toulgoët, 1954)
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Spilosoma viettei''
(Toulgoët, 1954)
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Spilosoma vieui''
(Toulgoët, 1957)
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