Saturnia (moth)

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Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Saturniinae Higher classification Royal moths		Phylum Arthropoda Family Saturniidae Scientific name Saturnia Rank Genus

Lower classifications Saturnia pyri, Saturnia pavonia, Saturnia pavoniella

Saturnia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. They are large moths, commonly called "emperor moths" though this is also used for various close relatives in subfamily Saturniinae. Most are Palearctic, but three species (S. mendocino, S. walterorum and S. albofasciata, commonly known as saturnia moths) occur in the chaparral of California.

Species

The known species of Saturnia are:

Saturnia albofasciata (Johnson, 1938) – White-streaked Saturnia (mostly in Calosaturnia)

Saturnia atlantica Lucas, 1848

Saturnia cameronensis Lemaire, 1979

Saturnia centralis Naumann & Loeffler, 2005

Saturnia cephalariae (Romanoff, 1885) (sometimes in Eudia)

Saturnia cidosa Moore, 1865

Saturnia cognata Jordan in Seitz, 1911

Saturnia koreanis Brechlin, 2009

Saturnia luctifera Jordan in Seitz, 1911

Saturnia mendocino Behrens, 1876 – Mendocino Saturnia (mostly in Calosaturnia)

Saturnia pavonia – Small Emperor Moth (sometimes in Eudia)

Saturnia pavoniella (sometimes in Eudia)

Saturnia pinratanai Lampe, 1989

Saturnia pyretorum Westwood, 1847

Saturnia pyri – Giant Emperor Moth, Viennese Emperor Moth

Saturnia spini – Sloe Emperor Moth (sometimes in Eudia)

Saturnia taibaishanis Brechlin, 2009

Saturnia walterorum Hogue & Johnson, 1958 – Walter's Saturnia (mostly in Calosaturnia)

Formerly placed here was the Brazilian Arsenura pandora. Whether the Autumn Emperor Moth (Perisomena caecigena), here separated in a monotypic genus, is not actually better included in Saturnia needs to be determined; the same goes for the genus Neoris.

References

Saturnia (moth) Wikipedia

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