Orgyia pseudotsugata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Orgyia
- Species
- Orgyia pseudotsugata
- Scientific Name
- Orgyia pseudotsugata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Orgyia pseudotsugata
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.
...Orgyia pseudotsugata in languages:
- English
- Douglas-fir tussock moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Orgyia albacostata
- Orgyia albofasciata
- Orgyia algiricum
- Orgyia anartoides
- Orgyia antiqua
- Orgyia antiquoides
- Orgyia araea
- Orgyia ariadne
- Orgyia athlophora
- Orgyia aurolimbata
- Orgyia australis
- Orgyia basinigra
- Orgyia cana
- Orgyia convergens
- Orgyia coresia
- Orgyia corsica
- Orgyia costaricensis
- Orgyia costarricensis
- Orgyia definita
- Orgyia detrita
- Orgyia dubia
- Orgyia falcata
- Orgyia flavolimbata
- Orgyia hopkinsi
- Orgyia immaculata
- Orgyia josephina
- Orgyia leucostigma
- Orgyia leuschneri
- Orgyia magna
- Orgyia nantonis
- Orgyia nigrocristata
- Orgyia ochrodorsalis
- Orgyia ochrolimbata
- Orgyia osseata
- Orgyia panlacroixii
- Orgyia papuana
- Orgyia parallela
- Orgyia postica
- Orgyia povera
- Orgyia prisca
- Orgyia pseudotsugata
- Orgyia recens
- Orgyia rupestris
- Orgyia senica
- Orgyia splendida
- Orgyia thyellina
- Orgyia triangularis
- Orgyia trigotephras
- Orgyia turbata
- Orgyia vaporata
- Orgyia vartiani
- Orgyia vetusta
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