Calliteara horsfieldii

TaxID: 1266071

Basic Information

Calliteara horsfieldii

Horsfield's Tussock Moth

Calliteara horsfieldii, or Horsfield's tussock moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by the British entomologist Edward Saunders in 1851, and named in honor of the British naturalist Thomas Horsfield, who traveled southern Asia and published works on zoology from the region. C. horsfieldii can be found in southern Asia, the islands of the northern Indian Ocean, and many parts of south east Asia and Indonesia. It is also sometimes referred to as the Yellow Tussock Moth.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Erebidae

Calliteara

horsfieldii

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Calliteara horsfieldii
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(c) commoncarp@BY-NC
Calliteara horsfieldii
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(c) Masatoshi Sone@BY-NC
Calliteara horsfieldii
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(c) sleepy_owl@BY-NC
Calliteara horsfieldii
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(c) budak@BY-NC
Calliteara horsfieldii
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(c) Dr. Alexey Yakovlev@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (3 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Costa Rica Absent —
Dominican Republic Quarantine pests —
Panama Quarantine pests —

Distribution (6 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Indonesia Present —
India Present —
Malaysia Present —
Philippines Present —
Singapore Present —
Thailand Present —

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature