Biology:Bombycoidea
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Short description: Superfamily of moths
| Bombycoidea | |
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| Death's-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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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Anthelidae | |
| Diversity | |
| Over 3,500 species | |
| Synonyms | |
Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths. It contains the silk moths, giant silk moths, sphinx moths, and relatives. The Lasiocampoidea are close relatives and were 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] Their larvae often exhibit horns.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gravenhorst, J. L. C. (1843). Vergleichende Zoologie. Breslau: Druck und Verlag von Graß, Barth und Comp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120240#page/218/mode/1up.
- ↑ Agassiz, L. (1846). Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. Soloduri: Jent et Gassmann. https://books.google.com/books?id=tL71aMeiZHEC&pg=PA49.
- ↑ Schrank, F. P. (1802). "Spinnerförmige Schmetterlinge. Lepidoptera bombyciformia" (in de). Fauna Boica. Zweyter Band. Zweyte Abteilung. Ingolstadt: Johann Wilhelm Krüll. pp. 149–156. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98205#page/155/mode/1up.
- ↑ 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, ISBN:1-55297-612-2, 2002
Wikidata ☰ Q133694 entry
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