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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Lasiocampoidea » Tent Caterpillar and Lappet Moths (Lasiocampidae)

Family Lasiocampidae - Tent Caterpillar and Lappet Moths

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Heteropacha rileyana - female Lappet Moth - Phyllodesma americana Lappet Moth - Phyllodesma americana Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth - Malacosoma disstria - male Malacosoma americanum - male Small Tolype species? - Artace cribraria Malacosoma disstria Malacosoma americanum - female
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Lasiocampoidea
Family Lasiocampidae (Tent Caterpillar and Lappet Moths)
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists 11 genera, with number of species in each: Apotolype (2), Artace (2), Caloecia (2), Dicogaster (1), Gloveria (5), Heteropacha (1), Hypopacha (1), and Malacosoma (6), Phyllodesma (3), Quadrina (1), Tolype (11).
Internet References
Moths of Canada (Lasiocampoidea of Canada)
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban
Last updated 26 February, 2006 - 12:37pm

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