Calliteara pudibunda

TaxID: 875926

Basic Information

Calliteara pudibunda

Pale Tussock, Pale Tussock Moth

Calliteara pudibunda, the pale tussock, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The Dutch common name for the moth (Meriansborstel) comes from the butterfly and insect painter Maria Sibylla Merian. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Asia and Europe.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Erebidae

Calliteara

pudibunda

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Calliteara pudibunda
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(c) Calum McLennan@BY-NC
Calliteara pudibunda
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(c) anonymous@BY-SA
Calliteara pudibunda
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(c) halinaa@BY-NC
Calliteara pudibunda
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(c) rasmusjes@BY-NC
Calliteara pudibunda
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(c) esdena@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Pupa. Sculpture fine on most parts; secondary setae bright straw yellow and onionlike enlarged and dark at the base on dorsum of basal abdominal segments. Metanotum medium shallow arch-like cut out, its frontal projections wide and obtusely round. Cremaster medium in length, tapering and pointly rounded at the end, with fine longitudinal furrows prior to end in ventral view, with secondary setae on sides and dorsal side, and with a brush of dark-brown hooks at the end.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Pupa Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Chile Quarantine pests 2019

Distribution (52 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Andorra Present —
Armenia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus Present —
Switzerland Present —
China Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_965615895.1 Chromosome 1035 3926 10853 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR14792833 - - male 49770031 -

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature