Malacosoma americanum

TaxID: 7099

Basic Information

Malacosoma americanum

eastern tent caterpillar, Error: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(10054, None, None)), Eastern Tent Caterpillar

The eastern tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum) is a species of moth in the family Lasiocampidae, the tent caterpillars or lappet moths. It is univoltine, producing one generation per year. It is a tent caterpillar, a social species that forms communal nests in the branches of trees. It is sometimes confused with the spongy moth (whose larvae look similar) and the fall webworm (which also builds tents), and may be erroneously referred to as a bagworm, which is the common name applied to unrelated caterpillars in the family Psychidae. The moths oviposit almost exclusively on trees in the plant family Rosaceae, particularly cherry (Prunus) and apple (Malus). The caterpillars are hairy with areas of blue, white, black and orange. The blue and white colors are structural colors created by the selective filtering of light by microtubules that arise on the ball cuticle.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Lasiocampidae

Malacosoma

americanum

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Malacosoma americanum
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(c) Nick Block@BY
Malacosoma americanum
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(c) Heather Rutherford@BY-NC
Malacosoma americanum
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(c) Bill MacIndewar@BY-NC
Malacosoma americanum
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(c) jonibaum@BY-NC
Malacosoma americanum
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(c) Nick Block@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (38 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (12 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Belarus Absent —
EPPO A1 Absent —
United Kingdom Quarantine pest 2022
Georgia Absent 2018
Croatia Quarantine pests —
Japan Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Morocco Quarantine pest 2018
Mexico Quarantine pests 2018
Russian Federation A1 list 2014
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Distribution (4 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

2
Present
2
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Canada Present
Netherlands Absent —
Turkey Absent —
United States of America Present

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