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Ground Lackey

Malacosoma castrense

Classification

Class
Insecta

Malacosoma castrense (or Malacosoma castrensis in the original spelling), the ground lackey, is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae. It is a tent caterpillar found in Europe. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 2United Kingdom