| Actias aliena | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Saturniidae |
| Genus: | Actias |
| Species: | A. aliena |
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| Actias aliena (Butler, 1879) | |
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Actias aliena is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It is a large silk moth with a wingspan ranging from 100-110 mm. [1] It is found in Japan. Its mitochondrial genome has been sequenced. [2] Their mitochondrial genome is 15,243 bp (base pairs) long.
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The Malaysian moon moth is a Saturniid in the subfamily Saturniinae from Indomalaya. The male is purplish-brown and yellow, while the larger female is overall light green.
Actias is a genus of Saturniid moths, which contains the Asian-American moon moths. Long tails on their hindwings are among their distinctive traits. Other moths with similar appearance are Copiopteryx, Argema and Eudaemonia.
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Antheraea pernyi, the Chinese oak tussar moth, Chinese tasar moth or temperate tussar moth, is a large moth in the family Saturniidae. The species was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1855. Antheraea roylei is an extremely close relative, and the present species might actually have evolved from ancestral A. roylei by chromosome rearrangement.
Actias neidhoederi is a moth belonging to the Actias Leach of Saturniidae. It is a species endemic to Taiwan.。
Actias gnoma, also known as the Japanese moon moth, is a moth in the family Saturniidae The species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in Japan and the Russian Far East.
Actias groenendaeli is a moth of the family Saturniidae first described by Roepke in 1954. It is found in Indonesia.
Actias australovietnama is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Vietnam.
Actias callandra, the Andaman moon moth, is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in India.
Actias chapae or colloquially known as the 'celestial moon moth' is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Vietnam and China and potentially other countries in the region; it is a montane species recorded from 1500m and higher. It appears to be an exclusive pine feeder and has been raised on many different species of Pinus in captivity.
Actias winbrechlini is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in China (Yunnan) and Burma.
Rhodinia fugax, the squeaking silkmoth, is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is native to Korea, Japan, China, and the Russian Far East.
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