Aroa socrus

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Lymantriidae

'The Tussock Moths are medium-sized moths, with wings that are most often brownish to grayish or white. They are often forest pests. Females are typically larger than males, and in some species the females'' wings are reduced to nubs or are nonfunctional. Both sexes have bipectinate antennae, and adult wingspan is 1.5-6.7 cm. Larvae are typically very hairy and usually have two anterior and two to three posterior long hair tufts. Stinging hairs are present in some species, such as the Browntail Moth. Larvae feed on foliage of many trees and shrubs but usually not on herbaceous plants . The Gypsy Moth is the most important of these forest pests in eastern North America.

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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aroa

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the museum of the Hon. East-India company. By Thomas Horsfield. .. and Frederic Moore. .. London, W.H. Allen and Co., 1857-59. url , p. 337.
• A catalogue of the moths of India. Calcutta, Indian Museum, 1887. url p. 135.
• A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. Ed. by W. Dwight Pierce, entomologist, southern field crop insect investigations. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1918. url p. 208, p. 208.
• Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum, by C. Swinhoe. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892-1900. url p. 196.
• Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Honolulu: Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 1905-1909 url p. 59.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 290.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 490, p. 736.
• Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London, The Society. url p. 119, p. 457.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Release date: June 15, 2005
• Orthoptera Species File Online, 2.5, 2006.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2978678
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lep-49425.0
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1711456

Footnotes

1. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=87&sci=Lymantriidae&com=Tussock Moths [back]

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