family saturniidae
Noun
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Important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known (synset 102303724)
is a type of: arthropod family - any of the arthropodsmember holonym:
- saturniid, saturniid moth - large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons
- genus saturnia, saturnia - type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth
- eacles, genus eacles - imperial moths
- giant silkworm, silkworm, wild wilkworm - larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
- actias, genus actias - luna moths
- genus hyalophora, hyalophora - American silkworm moth
- genus samia, samia - silkworm moths
- automeris, genus automeris - io moth
- antheraea, genus antheraea - large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality
- atticus, genus atticus - atlas moth
belongs to: lepidoptera, order lepidoptera - moths and butterfliessame as: saturniidae
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