Diarsia brunnea

Diarsia brunnea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Diarsia
Species:
D. brunnea
Binomial name
Diarsia brunnea
Synonyms
  • Noctua brunnea [Schiffermüller], 1775
  • Phalaena (Noctua) lucifera Esper, 1789
  • Phalaena (Noctua) lucifera Esper, 1798
  • Phalaena (Noctua) arvensis Gmelin, [1790]
  • Noctua carnea Thunberg, 1792
  • Phalaena (Noctua) fragariae Borkhausen, 1792

Diarsia brunnea, the purple clay, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.[1] The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in most of Europe, east to Transcaucasia, the Caucasus, central Asia, Siberia, the Kuriles, Amur, Ussuri, Sakhalin, Korea, Japan, and China, including China's Tibet region.[2]

  1. ^ Manley, C. (2021). British and Irish Moths: Third Edition: A Photographic Guide. Bloomsbury Naturalist. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-4729-7521-8. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  2. ^ Etheridge, K. (2020). The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book. Emergence of Natural History. Brill. p. 158. ISBN 978-90-04-28480-7. Retrieved 2024-05-13.