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)
Malacosoma castrensis
(Ground Lackey)
Malacosoma castrensis
is also a member of:
Macrolepidoptera
(via Bombycoidea)
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Malacosoma castrensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ground Lackey)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Cadbury, J., 2002, Larvae of the Ground Lackey Moth, British Wildlife, Vol 14, No. 2: 105 (illustration) Larvae of the Ground Lackey Moth
Glover, B., 2004, Larvae of the Ground Lackey moth..., British Wildlife, Vol 15, No. 6: 399 (illustration) Larvae of the Ground Lackey moth...

Malacosoma castrensis 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 3 feeding and other relationships of Malacosoma castrensis (Ground Lackey)

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