Spilosoma lubricipeda, the white ermine, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

It is found throughout the temperate belt of Eurasia from Europe through Kazakhstan and southern Siberia to Amur Region, China, Korea and Japan.

Forewing more or less sprinkled with sharply defined black dots, of which there are always some at the costa and others arranged in rows in the disc.

Specimens similar to sangaica occur aberratively also in Europe, bearing the name paucipuncta Fuchs and in contradistinction to it there is the very strongly dotted krieghoffi Pabst.

Larva lilac-brown with deep dark brown hair and orange-yellow dorsal stripe.

The larvae feed on stinging nettle, Cytisus scoparius, alfalfa, Echium vulgare and Taraxacum officinale.