BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
BOMBYCOIDEA (silk moths, emperor etc.)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family | LASIOCAMPIDAE (lackeys and eggars) | 11 | ||||
| Genus | Dendrolimus (a genus of lappet moths) | 1 | 3 | |||
| Species | Eriogaster lanestris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Small Eggar) | 1 | 1 | |||
| Species | Euthrix potatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) (Drinker) | 46 | 21 | 5 | ||
| Species | Lasiocampa quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Oak Eggar) | 1 | 15 | 7 | ||
| Species | Lasiocampa trifolii (Denis & Schiff., 1775) (Grass Eggar) | 4 | ||||
| Species | Macrothylacia rubi (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fox Moth) | 23 | 2 | |||
| Species | Malacosoma castrensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ground Lackey) | 2 | 3 | |||
| Species | Malacosoma neustria (Linnaeus, 1758) (The Lackey) | 13 | 19 | |||
| Species | Poecilocampa populi (Linnaeus, 1758) (December Moth) | 18 | 2 | |||
| Species | Trichiura crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pale Eggar) | 1 | ||||
| Informal | (Eriogaster lanestris / Malacosoma neustria) (Eggar/Lackey) | 2 | 13 | 1 | 21 | |
| Family | SATURNIIDAE (emperor moths) | 1 | ||||
| Species | Pavonia pavonia (Linnaeus, 1758) (Emperor) | 54 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J., 1991 | Lasiocampidae to Thyatiridae (vol 7(2)) |
| Ford, R.L.E., 1963 | The Observer's Book of Larger Moths |
BOMBYCOIDEA may also be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
HEXAPODA (hexapods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) |
DITRYSIA (the major suborder of moths) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
BOMBYCOIDEA is associated with:
There may be taxa associated with Bombycoidea listed at higher taxonomic level
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INSECTA (insects) |
LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) |
Associated with BOMBYCOIDEA:
Bombycoidea may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) |
