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Caligula | |
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Caligula japonica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Saturniidae |
Subfamily: | Saturniinae |
Tribe: | Saturniini |
Genus: | Caligula Moore, 1862 |
Species | |
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Caligula is a genus of moths of the family Saturniidae. It is primarily an Oriental genus, found in India, China and Southeast Asia. The genus is often treated as a synonym of Rinaca . [1] [ failed verification ] It is named after Roman emperor Caligula.
The genus includes the following species:
Papilio is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word papilio is Latin for butterfly.
Caligula japonica, the Japanese giant silkworm, is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1872. It is found in eastern Asia, including China, Korea, Japan and Russia.
Caligula cachara is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1872. It is found in eastern Asia, including Thailand.
Smerinthini is a tribe of moths of the family Sphingidae. The genus was erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Herbert C. Robinson in 1865.
Caligula lindia is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1865. It is found in south-eastern Afghanistan north to the Salang Pass, and Kashmir. It is also found in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, from Kashmir to Bhutan and southern Tibet, China and Nepal. It is found up to heights of 2,400 meters.
Loepa is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.
Adelowalkeria is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Travassos in 1941.
Copiopteryx is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by James Duncan and John O. Westwood in 1841.
Paradaemonia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Eugène Louis Bouvier in 1925.
Leucanella is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Claude Lemaire in 1969.
Hyalophora is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by James Duncan and John O. Westwood in 1841.
Rinaca is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1862. It is often treated as a subgenus of Saturnia.
Rhodinia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1892.
Gonimbrasia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
Nudaurelia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Rothschild in 1895.