Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Saturniidae Scientific name Saturnia spini | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Saturnia Rank Species | |
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Similar Saturnia pavoniella, Saturnia, Perisomena caecigena, Aglia tau, Marumba quercus | ||
The Sloe Emperor Moth (Saturnia spini) is a moth of the Saturniidae family. It is found from eastern Austria and Poland across eastern and south-eastern Europe to Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Ukraine, Crimea and Kazakhstan.
It has a wingspan of 55–90 mm. Adults are on wing from April to June in one generation.
The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa, Rosa, Crataegus, Ulmus, Alnus, Salix, Populus and Malus in Europe. In Turkey and the Crimea it shows a preference for spiny members of the rose family.
There are no subspecies, although the population from the Ukraine and southern Russia is sometimes treated as a subspecies, Saturnia spini haversoni Watson, 1911.
References
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