#2733 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Ground Lackey
🇳🇱 Heideringelrups ·Malacosoma castrensis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ben Sale · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Darius Baužys · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Sarah Gregg · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Александр Корепанов · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Helena Yarova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Malacosoma castrense (or Malacosoma castrensis ), the ground lackey , is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae. It is a tent caterpillar found in Europe.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,103 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Ground Lackey
- Nederlands
- Heideringelrups
- scientific name
- Malacosoma castrensis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Lasiocampidae
- sightings in NL
- 57
- sightings in Europe
- 2,505
- sightings worldwide
- 5,103
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Lasiocampidae
#2419 📷 8Fox Moth
🇳🇱 Veelvraat
Macrothylacia rubi
👀 661 in NL
#2448 📷 10Drinker Moth
🇳🇱 Rietvink
Euthrix potatoria
👀 408 in NL
#2483 📷 7Oak Eggar
🇳🇱 Hageheld
Lasiocampa quercus
👀 295 in NL
#2511 📷 10The Lackey
🇳🇱 Ringelrups
Malacosoma neustria
👀 211 in NL
#2614 📷 7Grass Eggar
🇳🇱 Kleine hageheld
Lasiocampa trifolii
👀 107 in NL
#2914 📷 10Pine-tree Lappet
🇳🇱 Dennenspinner
Dendrolimus pini
👀 23 in NL
#3094 📷 8Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Malacosoma americana
🌍 66.4k seen
#3111 📷 10Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Malacosoma disstria
🌍 41.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 475345, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.