Telochurus recens, the scarce vapourer, is a moth of the subfamily Lymantriinae found in Europe. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. The wingspan is 35 to 40 millimetres (1.4–1.6 in) for the males; the females are wingless. The moth flies from June to July depending on the location. The larvae feed on various deciduous trees, such as Crataegus and Salix species. This species has commonly been placed in the genus Orgyia but molecular analyses support its exclusion from that genus, and placement in the genus Telochurus.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Telochurus |
| Species: | T. recens
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| Binomial name | |
| Telochurus recens (Hübner, 1819)
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References
edit- ^ Wang, H. et al. (2015). "Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions". Cladistics. 31 (6): 579-592 doi:10.1111/cla.12108
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orgyia recens.
- Kimber, Ian. "72.018 BF2025 Scarce Vapourer Orgyia recens (Hübner, [1819])". UKMoths. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "Orgyia (Clethrogyna) recens (Hübner 1819)". Fauna Europaea. Archived 20 March 2017.
- "10396 Orgyia recens (Hübner, [1819) - Eckfleck-Bürstenspinner, Eckfleck-Bürstenbinder"]. Lepiforum e. V. Retrieved 16 May 2020. (in German)
- "Orgyia recens (Hübner, 1819)". Schmetterlinge-Deutschlands.de. Retrieved 16 May 2020. (in German)
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