Malacosoma neustria

TaxID: 7098

Basic Information

Malacosoma neustria

Lackey, Lackey Moth, lackey moth

The lackey moth (Malacosoma neustria) is a moth in the family Lasiocampidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is common across southern Britain and central Europe. Malacosoma species are notable for their caterpillars which are brightly coloured and form silken tents to regulate their temperature. Malacosoma neustria caterpillars are brown with blue, orange and white stripes. The adults are a fairly uniform brown. The larvae feed mainly on trees and shrubs from within their tents.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Lasiocampidae

Malacosoma

neustria

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Malacosoma neustria
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(c) Callum Carpenter@BY-NC
Malacosoma neustria
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(c) Paolo Mazzei@BY-NC
Malacosoma neustria
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(c) Nikolai Vladimirov@BY-NC
Malacosoma neustria
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(c) Misha@BY-NC
Malacosoma neustria
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(c) Michał Brzeziński@BY-NC

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 (7 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Argentina Absent 2019
Chile Quarantine pests 2024
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Moldova Quarantine pests —
Peru Absent —
Uruguay Absent —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (50 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
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Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Armenia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus 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_963693495.1 Chromosome 567 10905 21044 -

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