kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 >
superfamily: Noctuoidea Latreille, 1809 >
family: Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 >
subfamily: Nystaleinae Forbes, 1948 >
genus: Elymiotis Walker, 1857 >
species: Elymiotis purpurascens (Butler, 1879) >