Claim: Actinotia polyodon is a species in the kingdom Animalia, found in much of the Palearctic realm, from Europe to Russia and Japan.
Evidence: Actinotia polyodon, the purple cloud, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. Kingdom: Animalia It is found in much of the Palearctic realm, from Europe to Russia and Japan. The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It was first used in the 19th century, and is still in use as the basis for zoogeographic classification. The Palearctic is the largest of the eight realms. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several ecoregions: the Euro-Siberian region; the Mediterranean Basin; the Sahara and Arabian Deserts; and Western, Central and East Asia.