BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)
DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)
BOMBYCOIDEA
(silk moths, emperor etc.)
LASIOCAMPIDAE
(lackeys and eggars)
Eriogaster lanestris
(Small Eggar)
Eriogaster lanestris
is also a member of:
Eriogaster lanestris / Malacosoma neustria
(via Eriogaster lanestris)
Macrolepidoptera
(via Bombycoidea)
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Eriogaster lanestris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Small Eggar)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Sterling, P., 2011 Which one wove that web?
Waring, P, 2004, Small Eggar, British Wildlife, Vol 15, No. 5: 362 (illustration) Small Eggar

Eriogaster lanestris may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)		 DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)		 BOMBYCOIDEA
(silk moths, emperor etc.)
Macrolepidoptera (via Bombycoidea)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 feeding and other relationships of Eriogaster lanestris (Small Eggar)

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