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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyErebidae
Observations recorded202,547
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,250
- With media
- 2,392
- Family
- Erebidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM, NHMUK, MISSA
- Recorded in
- Czechoslovakia, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Calliteara
- Image
- 2018-09-30 Meriansborstel 3.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- Commons gallery
- Calliteara pudibunda
- taxon name
- Calliteara pudibunda
- Commons category
- Calliteara pudibunda
- taxon common name
- szczotecznica szarawka
- has host
- Tilia cordata
- short name
- C. pudibunda
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Encyclopedic overview
Calliteara pudibunda, the pale tussock, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The Dutch common name for the moth (Meriansborstel) comes from the butterfly and insect painter Maria Sibylla Merian. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Asia and Europe.
Technical description and variation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calliteara pudibunda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.