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Spilosoma lubricipeda, the white ermine, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found throughout the temperate belt of Eurasia from Europe through Kazakhstan and southern Siberia to Amur Region, China, Korea and Japan. In China several sibling species occur. Caterpillar Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 5
Larvae of Ermine moths at the bottom of their cocoon. Ermine moths are small to medium-sized moths varying in wingspan from 8 to 31 mm (0.3 to 1.2 in). The heads mostly have smooth scales, the haustellum is naked and the labial palps are curved upwards. The maxillary palps usually consist of one or two segments.
Spilosoma lubricipeda (Linnaeus, 1758) – white ermine; Spilosoma lutea (Hufnagel, 1766) – buff ermine; Spilosoma ningyuenfui Daniel, 1943; Spilosoma pelopea (Druce, 1897) Spilosoma punctaria (Stoll, [1782]) Spilosoma reticulata Rothschild, 1933; Spilosoma rostagnoi Oberthür, 1911; Spilosoma rubidus (Leech, 1890) Spilosoma semialbescens ...
The buff ermine (Spilarctia luteum) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is sometimes placed in the genus Spilosoma . The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766.
The caterpillars are gregarious and feed on the leaves of the bird cherry tree, forming silken webbing for their own protection. They create further webbing on the trunk and near the base of the tree, which hides them as they pupate. This photograph shows one of many bird-cherry ermine caterpillar nests on a tree in Lahemaa National Park ...
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Eulepidotis affinis, Panama Apantesis arge caterpillar (Arctiinae) Halysidota tessellaris, cocoon. The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea.The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups.