Definition of Lasiocampid moth

1. Noun. Medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae.

Exact synonyms: Lasiocampid
Generic synonyms: Moth
Group relationships: Family Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampidae
Specialized synonyms: Eggar, Egger, Malacosoma Disstria, Tent-caterpillar Moth, Lappet, Lappet Moth, Webworm Moth

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lasiocampid Moth

lashings
lashins
lashkar
lashkars
lashless
lashlike
lashline
lashlines
lasht
lashup
lashups
lashwise
lasing
lasings
lasiocampid
lasiocampid moth (current term)
lask
lasket
laskets
lasks
lasque
lasques

Literary usage of Lasiocampid moth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Indian Forester (1903)
"These characters render it easy to distinguish a lasiocampid moth. ... The moth is grey in colour and answer the above description of a lasiocampid moth. ..."

2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"... hairs of the female, bat not of the male tuft, were covered with minute excessively fine spicule-like teeth. THE COCOONS OF THE AFRICAN lasiocampid moth ..."

3. A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the by Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter (1920)
"... of a structure useful at one stage of development being apparently made use of to protect a subsequent stage. The larva of the lasiocampid moth, ..."

4. A Manual of Dangerous Insects Likely to be Introduced in the United States by United States Bureau of Entomology (1918)
"The lasiocampid moth, Lasiocampa trifolii Ep., of Europe and Asia Minor, is injurious to clover. Many weevils of the genus Sitona not mentioned below are ..."

5. A Manual of Elementary Forest Zoology for India by Edward Percy Stebbing (1908)
"The moth is grey in colour and answers the above description of a Lasiocampid moth.* Fig. 242 shows the larva, cocoon, pupa, and moth of this insect. ..."

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