The habitat is salt marsh and estuary.[1] It is not particularly common due to this specialist habitat, but neither is it a threatened species.[2]
Life cycle and behaviouredit
Eggs are laid in rings around plant stalks,[3] and can survive immersion in salt water. The blue-grey larvae feed on various shrubs and herbaceous plants such as heather, cypress spurge, and Lotus species, and other plants found in their habitat except grasses, but they can be fed apple or hawthorn foliage in captivity. The ground lackey larva is a tent caterpillar. which makes a new tent with each moult. Fully-grown caterpillars are fast walkers.[1] The pupa is not cocooned.[3]
Adults fly from June to August, depending on the location. The length of the forewings is 13–16 mm for males and 17–21 mm for females. They fly at night.[2]
malacosoma, castrense, malacosoma, castrensis, ground, lackey, moth, family, lasiocampidae, tent, caterpillar, found, europe, species, first, described, carl, linnaeus, 1758, 10th, edition, systema, naturae, moth, habitats, salt, marshes, estuaries, ground, la. Malacosoma castrense or Malacosoma castrensis 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 The moth s habitats are salt marshes and estuaries Ground lackey Larvae Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Lepidoptera Family Lasiocampidae Genus Malacosoma Species M castrense Binomial name Malacosoma castrense Linnaeus 1758 Synonyms Malacosoma castrensisMalacosoma tianshanica Daniel 1949Phalaena castrensis Linnaeus 1758 Contents 1 Distribution and habitat 2 Life cycle and behaviour 3 Subspecies 4 References 5 External linksDistribution and habitat editThe habitat is salt marsh and estuary 1 It is not particularly common due to this specialist habitat but neither is it a threatened species 2 Life cycle and behaviour editEggs are laid in rings around plant stalks 3 and can survive immersion in salt water The blue grey larvae feed on various shrubs and herbaceous plants such as heather cypress spurge and Lotus species and other plants found in their habitat except grasses but they can be fed apple or hawthorn foliage in captivity The ground lackey larva is a tent caterpillar which makes a new tent with each moult Fully grown caterpillars are fast walkers 1 The pupa is not cocooned 3 Adults fly from June to August depending on the location The length of the forewings is 13 16 mm for males and 17 21 mm for females They fly at night 2 Subspecies editMalacosoma castrense castrense Malacosoma castrense kirghisicum Staudinger 1879 Asia Minor Kazakhstan Turkmenia Uzbekistan Malacosoma castrense thomalae Gaede 1932 Tien Shan References edit a b Ford R L E 1963 The Observer s Book of Larger Moths London Frederick Warne p 143 a b Vlinderstichting Retrieved 23 September 2022 a b Lepiforum Retrieved 23 September 2022 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Malacosoma castrense Kimber Ian 66 004 BF1635 Ground Lackey Malacosoma castrensis Linnaeus 1758 UKMoths Retrieved 3 July 2019 Lepidoptera of Belgium Lepiforum e V De Vlinderstichting in Dutch Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Malacosoma castrense amp oldid 1111898866, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
