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title: "Szczotecznica szarawka"
description: "Calliteara pudibunda — Owady i pająki. Calliteara pudibunda, the pale tussock, is a moth of the family Erebidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/pale-tussock-moth
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Szczotecznica szarawka

> Calliteara pudibunda — Owady i pająki. Calliteara pudibunda, the pale tussock, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

- Scientific name: *Calliteara pudibunda*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 27145
- Wikidata: [Q45508](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45508)
- iNaturalist taxon: [205294](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/205294)

## Names

- en: Pale Tussock Moth
- de: Buchen-Streckfuß
- fr: Pudibonde
- nl: Meriansborstel
- pl: Szczotecznica szarawka

## Countries with the most observations

GB (5732), DE (4182), FR (2612), DK (1877), AT (1534), IT (1304), ES (1088), CH (1048), RU (977), PL (662), CZ (661), NL (614)

## Summary

Calliteara pudibunda, the pale tussock, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The Dutch common name for the moth (Meriansborstel) comes from the butterfly and insect painter Maria Sibylla Merian. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Asia and Europe.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliteara_pudibunda

## Photo

![Szczotecznica szarawka](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pale-tussock-moth/medium.jpg)

Photo: Liubov Ilminska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117448055

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pale-tussock-moth?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).