Bombycoidea
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| Bombycoidea | |
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| Death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Eulepidoptera |
| Clade: | Ditrysia |
| Clade: | Apoditrysia |
| Clade: | Obtectomera |
| Clade: | Macroheterocera |
| Superfamily: | Bombycoidea Gravenhorst, 1843[1][2] |
| Families | |
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See text
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| Diversity | |
| >3,500 species | |
| Synonyms | |
Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths, including the silk moths, giant silk moths, sphinx moths, saturniids, and relatives. The superfamily Lasiocampoidea is a close relative and was historically sometimes merged in this group. After many years of debate and shifting taxonomies, the most recent classifications treat the superfamily as containing 10 constituent families.[4]
Characteristics
[edit | edit source]Bombycoid larvae often exhibit horns.[5] In the adult stage they are typically large, and include the largest moths in the world.
Families
[edit | edit source]Bombycoidea includes the following families:
- Anthelidae
- Apatelodidae
- Bombycidae
- Brahmaeidae (syn. Lemoniidae)
- Carthaeidae
- Endromidae (syn. Mirinidae)
- Eupterotidae
- Phiditiidae
- Saturniidae
- Sphingidae
References
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- ^ Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236
- ^ Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 2002
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