lasiocampoidea

 Lasiocampoidea is the superfamily of "lappet moths" (Lasiocampidae), containing one family of small to very large moths.

Lasiocampoidea
Lasiocampa quercus01.jpg
Oak eggar, Lasiocampa quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scientific classificatione
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Clade:Eulepidoptera
Clade:Ditrysia
Clade:Apoditrysia
Clade:Obtectomera
Clade:Macroheterocera
Superfamily:Lasiocampoidea
Families

Lasiocampidae

Diversity
over 2,000 species

The group is closely related to the Bombycoidea and sometimes merged therein.

Note

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 Metasyntactic variable, which is released under the 
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