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Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth; spongy moth)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lymantria dispar, the spongy (gypsy) moth, are moths in the family Erebidae. Lymantria dispar covers many subspecies, subspecies identification such as L. d. dispar or L. d. japonica leaves no ambiguity in identification. Lymantria dispar subspecies have a range which covers in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America.
View Wikipedia Record: Lymantria dispar

Infraspecies

Lymantria dispar asiatica (Asian spongy moth)
Lymantria dispar dispar (gypsy moth)
Lymantria dispar japonica
Lymantria dispar kolthoffi
Lymantria dispar koreibia
Lymantria dispar postalba
Lymantria dispar tsushimensis
Lymantria dispar umbrosa

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Lymantria dispar

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fenland 1529 England, United Kingdom
Isles of Scilly Complex 66350 England, United Kingdom    
Norrkrog 41 Sweden  

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♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0