Paraspilarctia
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Paraspilarctia is a genus of moth in the family Arctiidae
. It occurs in China
, including Taiwan
, and North Vietnam
.
Arctiidae
Arctiidae is a large and diverse family of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This family includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths , which usually have bright colours, footmen , lichen moths and wasp moths...
. It occurs in China
China
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, including Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, and North Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
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Subgenus Paraspilarctia Kôda, 1988
- Paraspilarctia magna (Wileman, 1910)
Subgenus Kishidarctia Dubatolov, 2003
- Paraspilarctia klapperichi (Daniel, 1943)