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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea)

Superfamily Zygaenoidea - Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea)

Revision and phylogeny of the Limacodid-Group families, with evolutionary studies on Slug Caterpillars Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea

By Marc E. Epstein
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 582, 1996

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 24 May, 2012 - 5:56pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Slug Caterpillar Moths (Limacodidae) » Euclea » Spiny Oak-Slug Moth - Hodges#4697 (Euclea delphinii)

Checklist of the Big Thicket National Preserve (Texas Lepidoptera Survey publication #2)

By Charles Bordelon & Ed Knudson
Texas Lepidoptera Survey, 1999

Treats 1737 species, 15 color plates. Latest revision 2003, another revision in progress. Represents the fruits of over a decade's field work in the BITH by the authors, who have recently renewed their permit and expect to have over 1800 species documented for the region soon.

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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 3 September, 2008 - 9:13am

Revision of the North American Lactura (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Lacturidae)

By Matson, T.A., D.L. Wagner, S.E. Miller
ZooKeys, 846: 75–116, 2019

Matson, T.A., D.L. Wagner, S.E. Miller, 2019. Revision of the North American Lactura (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Lacturidae). ZooKeys, 846: 75–116.

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 18 July, 2019 - 2:59pm

A new cryptic Lactura from Texas (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Lacturidae)

By Tanner Matson, David L. Wagner
ZooKeys 711: 141-150, 2017

Lactura rubritegula Matson & Wagner, sp. n.
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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 24 October, 2017 - 7:22pm

The Megalopygid genus Trosia, with description of a new species

By Harrison G. Dyar
Journal of The New York Entomological Society 7: 173-174, 1889

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 March, 2013 - 8:59am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Dalceridae

Biology of Dalcerides ingenita (Lepidoptera Dalceridae)

By Marc E. Epstein
Tropical Lepidoptera 8(2): 49-59, 1997

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 26 May, 2013 - 9:42am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Dalceridae

Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera).

By Scott E. Miller
Bulletin of The Museum of Comparative Zoology 153: 301-495, 1994

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 26 May, 2013 - 9:18am

Lacturidae, new family (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea)

By J. B. Heppner
Tropical Lepidoptera 6(2): 146-148, 1995

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 April, 2013 - 7:29pm

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