Attacus dohertyi

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Attacus dohertyi
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Male from Timor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Attacus
Species:
A. dohertyi
Binomial name
Attacus dohertyi
Synonyms
  • Attacus dohertyi soembanusvan Eecke, 1933

Attacus dohertyi is a moth in the family Saturniidae first described by Rothschild in 1895. [1] It is found on Timor, Flores, Roma and Damar.

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References

  1. Attacus dohertyi Archived May 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine exotic-insects.com