LC control no. | sh 85117701 |
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LC classification | QL561.S2 Zoology |
Topical heading | Saturniidae |
Variant(s) | Adelocephalidae Agliidae Arsenuridae Attacidae Ceratocampidae Citheroniidae Dirphiadae Emperor moths Giant silk moths Giant silkworm moths Hemileucidae Hylesiidae Lonomiidae Rhescyntidae Saturniid moths Silk moths, Giant Silkworm moths, Giant Sphingicampidae |
See also | Lepidoptera Moths |
Found in | LC database, Sept. 11, 1998 (emperor moths) Pinhey, E.C.G. Moths of Southern Africa, c1975: p. 109 (Family Saturniidae; Emperor moths, Giant Silk moths) Britannica Micro. (saturniid moth, also called giant silkworm moth, any of the approximately 800 species of the cosmopolitan (principally tropical) insect family Saturniidae (order Lepidoptera)). |