Spilosoma (genus)
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File:Male Spilosoma lubricipeda - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg
Spilosoma lubricipeda (click on image to enlarge it)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Spilosoma Curtis, 1825
This moth genus from the family Erebidae is widely distributed, especially in North America and Europe, and includes several hundred species. Several of them are regarded as agricultural pests like Spilosoma obliqua a polyphagous species in southern Asia. The genus is heterogeneous and several species groups have been described
Type species: Spilosoma menthastri
Currently, the following species have been entered into the system:
