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Malacosoma
Sign in to saveMalacosoma is a genus of moth in the family Lasiocampidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820. The larva is commonly called the Tent caterpillar.
Species
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Genus
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyPilumnidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,036
- With media
- 669
- Family
- Lasiocampidae
- Collections
- YPM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, UCD, UAM
- Recorded in
- Italy, United States, Canada, Japan, Switzerland
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lasiocampidae
- Image
- Malacosoma franconicum MHNT CUT 2011 0 446 Huez female dos.jpg
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- Malacosoma
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Malacosoma
- topic's main category
- Category:Malacosoma
- taxon common name
- prządka
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Malacosoma is a genus of moth in the family Lasiocampidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820. The larva is commonly called the Tent caterpillar.
==Species== Malacosoma alpicolum (Staudinger, 1870) Malacosoma americanum (Fabricius, 1793) Malacosoma californicum (Packard, 1864) Malacosoma castrense (Linnaeus, 1758) Malacosoma constricta (=constrictum) (H. Edwards, 1874) Malacosoma disstria (Hübner, [1820]) Malacosoma franconicum (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) Malacosoma incurva (H. Edwards, 1882) Malacosoma laurae (Lajonquuière, 1977) Malacosoma luteum (Oberthür, 1878) Malacosoma neustria (Linnaeus, 1758) Malacosoma parallellum (Staudinger, 1887) Malacosoma primum (Staudinger, 1887) Malacosoma tigris (Dyar, 1902)
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