Spilosoma vagans, the wandering diacrisia or wandering tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852. It is found in western North America, from southern California, southern Utah and central Colorado north to southern British Columbia and south-western Alberta. The habitat consists of drier forests, including open ponderosa pine forests and mixed hardwood-conifer forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Spilosoma |
| Species: | S. vagans
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The length of the forewings is 14–18 mm. Adults are on wing from late April to early August.
The larvae feed various herbaceous plants.[2]
Subspecies
edit- Spilosoma vagans vagans
- Spilosoma vagans kasloa (Dyar, 1904)[3]
References
edit- ^ "Spilosoma Curtis, 1825" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Pacific Northwest Moths
- ^ Spilosoma vagans at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma vagans". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- Spilosoma vagans at BOLD
- Spilosoma vagans at EOL
- Spilosoma vagans at BHL