Cerura iberica

Cerura iberica is an Iberian endemism, a moth that due to its great voracity can lead to completely defoliate trees, although it is uncommon to find high populations on the same foot, so that damage can be significant almost exclusively in young plantations. The females lay in small groups on the leaves. The larvae eat leaves voraciously, consuming up to the petiole in the later stages if food is scarce. Cerura iberica shows only slight differences to C. vinula (especially male genitalia) and replaces it in SW-Europe (Iberian Peninsula). Both species are sympatric in Spanish Pyrenees and French east Pyrenees.