Family
Lasiocampidae (Lappet moths)
Malacosoma constricta. Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)
The Lasiocampidae are a family of moths also known as eggars, snout moths (although this also refers to the Pyralidae), or lappet moths. Over 2,000 species occur worldwide, and probably not all have been named or studied.