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Cossus cossus
(Goat Moth)
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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Cossus cossus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Goat Moth)

Suggested Literature

Cossus cossus may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 HEXAPODA
(hexapods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)		 DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)		 COSSIDAE
(goat and leopard moths)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Cossus cossus:

boring boring may attract imago Fannia aequilineata - a lesser house fly (Diptera: Fanniidae) van Emden, F.I., 1954
boring boring may attract imago Phaonia laeta - a muscid fly (Diptera: Muscidae) d’Assis-Fonseca, E.C.M., 1968
boring boring may attract imago Phaonia pratensis - a muscid fly (Diptera: Muscidae) d’Assis-Fonseca, E.C.M., 1968
boring boring may house larva Phaonia gobertii - a muscid fly (Diptera: Muscidae) UK/Ireland d’Assis-Fonseca, E.C.M., 1968
Photos borings borings may attract larva Ferdinandea cuprea - a hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993
borings borings may attract larva Ferdinandea ruficornis - a hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993
Photos larva larva may attract larva Ferdinandea - a genus of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993
larva larva may attract larva Brachyopa insensilis - a hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993
larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Xylotachina diluta - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Restricted Belshaw, R., 1993 [NHM]

Cossus cossus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

References

Belshaw, R., 1993 Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)
d’Assis-Fonseca, E.C.M., 1968 Diptera: Cyclorrapha Calyptrata Sect (b) Muscidae
Rotheray, G.E., 1993 Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain and Europe
van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae

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