EU, AC, E.Asia, Japan, Asia Minor, Iran. See [About maps]
Keltasiilikäs
Keltainen siilikehrääjä
Purpurbär
Écaille Pourprée
Citrongul igelkottspinnare
bîborszînü medvelepke
Arctia purpurea ab. flava Staudinger, 1861; in Staudinger & Wocke, Cat. Lep. (ed. 1): 57
Rhyparia purpurata, Lepidoptera collection [SZMN]
Rhyparia purpurata, Larvae of North-European Lepidoptera [Kimmo Silvonen]
Rhyparia purpurata, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Rhyparia purpurata, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Diacrisia purpurata ; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3: 298
Rhyparia purpurata ; [DubA, #71]; de Freina, 1999, Atalanta 30 (1/4): 246
Larva on
Salix spp.,
S. repens,
S. phylicifolia,
Sorbus aucuparia,
Trifolium repens,
Vaccinium myrtillus,
Plantago major,
Galium verum,
Achillea millefolium,
Artemisia campestris,
Hieracium umbellatum [SPRK]
EU, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan, N.Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Mongolia
Phalaena purpurata Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 505
Phalaena purpurea Linnaeus, 1767; Syst. Nat. (Edn 12) 1 (2): 828
Arctia obscura Rehberg, 1880; Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, 1880: 466 (??8879)
Rhyparia purpurata uralensis Spuler, 1906; Schmett. Eur., 2: 131
Rhyparia purpurata barteli Krulikovsky, 1909; Materialy k poznaniyu fauny i flory Ross. Imp. Otd. Zool. 9: 172
Arctia purpurea ab. caucasica Alpheraky, 1867; Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 10: 14
callunae Mautz, 1933
Rhyparia purpurata purpurata ; [DubA, #71a]
Rhyparia purpurata caucasica ; [DubA, #71b]
Rhyparia purpurata purpurata ; [DubP]
Amur (middle basin), Primorye, E.Mongolia, NE.China, Korea, Japan
Rhyparia purpurata gerda Warnecke, 1918; Int. Ent. Z. 12 (11): 81
Rhyparia purpurata gerda ; [DubA, #71c]
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