Calliteara horsfieldii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Calliteara
- Species
- Calliteara horsfieldii
- Scientific Name
- Calliteara horsfieldii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Calliteara horsfieldii
Calliteara horsfieldii, or Horsfield's tussock moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by the British entomologist Edward Saunders in 1851, and named in honor of the British naturalist Thomas Horsfield, who traveled southern Asia and published works on zoology from the region. C. horsfieldii can be found in southern Asia, the islands of the northern Indian Ocean, and many parts of south east Asia and Indonesia. It is also sometimes referred to as the Yellow Tussock Moth.
...Calliteara horsfieldii in languages:
- Chinese
- 無憂花麗毒蛾
- English
- Horsfield's Tussock Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Calliteara abietis
- Calliteara angulata
- Calliteara aphrasta
- Calliteara argentata
- Calliteara arizana
- Calliteara axutha
- Calliteara baibarana
- Calliteara box
- Calliteara brunnea
- Calliteara cerebosa
- Calliteara cerigoides
- Calliteara chandra
- Calliteara cinctata
- Calliteara complicata
- Calliteara conjuncta
- Calliteara contexta
- Calliteara cox
- Calliteara diplozona
- Calliteara farenoides
- Calliteara fascelina
- Calliteara fidjiensis
- Calliteara flavobrunnea
- Calliteara fortunata
- Calliteara grotei
- Calliteara himalayana
- Calliteara horsfieldii
- Calliteara ignorata
- Calliteara kaszabi
- Calliteara kikuchii
- Calliteara lairdae
- Calliteara lunulata
- Calliteara melli
- Calliteara mundi
- Calliteara nandarivatu
- Calliteara nandarivatus
- Calliteara pseudabietis
- Calliteara pseudolairdae
- Calliteara pudibunda
- Calliteara pura
- Calliteara saitonis
- Calliteara siniaevi
- Calliteara solitaria
- Calliteara strigata
- Calliteara taiwana
- Calliteara thwaitesii
- Calliteara varia
- Calliteara virginea
- Calliteara wolongensis
- Calliteara zelotica
























































































































































