Orgyia pseudotsugata

TaxID: 33414

Basic Information

Orgyia pseudotsugata

Douglas fir tussock moth, Douglas-fir Tussock Moth

Orgyia pseudotsugata, the Douglas-fir tussock moth, is a moth of the subfamily Lymantriinae first described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1921. It is found in western North America. Its population periodically irrupts in cyclical outbreaks. The caterpillars feed on the needles of Douglas fir, true fir, and spruce in summer, and moths are on the wing from July or August to November.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Erebidae

Orgyia

pseudotsugata

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Orgyia pseudotsugata
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(c) Ken-ichi Ueda@BY
Orgyia pseudotsugata
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(c) Cat Chang@BY-NC
Orgyia pseudotsugata
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(c) blakewxb@BY-NC
Orgyia pseudotsugata
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(c) Aaron Allen@BY
Orgyia pseudotsugata
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(c) David McComb@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (17 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (14 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Argentina Absent 2019
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
EPPO A1 Absent —
Croatia Quarantine pests —
India Quarantine pests —
Japan Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Morocco Quarantine pest 2018
Nicaragua Absent —
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Distribution (4 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Canada Present
Germany Present —
Mexico Present —
United States of America 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