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| Genus: | Ceranchia Butler, 1878 |
Ceranchia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. [1]
It contains only one species, the ghostly silkmoth (Ceranchia apollinaButler, 1878) from Madagascar.
Saturniidae, members of which are commonly named the saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. The family contains some of the largest species of moths in the world. Notable members include the emperor moths, royal moths, and giant silk moths.
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. It is named after Roman emperor Caligula.
Prince Pasquale of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Bari, full Italian name: Pasquale Baylen Maria del Carmine Giovanni-Battista Vincenzo-Ferreri Michele Arcangel Francesco di Paola Ferdinando Francesco di Assisi Luigi-Re Alfonso Gaetano Giuseppe Pietro Paolo Gennaro Luigi-Gonzaga Giovanni Giuseppe della Croce Gaspare Melchiore Baldassare Alberto Sebastiano Giorgio Venanzio Emanuele Placido Andrea-Avelino Rocco Pacifico Francesco di Geronimo Felice Teziano Ana Filomena Sebazia Lucia Luitgarda Apollina, Principe di Borbone delle Due Sicilie, Conte di Bari was the eleventh child of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Theresa of Austria.
Pseudantheraea discrepans is a species of moth of the family Saturniidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Africa, from Ivory Coast to Uganda in the north and from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south.
Pseudantheraea is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Weymer in 1892.
Gilles Terral was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera Parnassiinae and Saturniidae.
Epiphora is a genus of large moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was first described by Wallengren in 1860. They are native to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Imbrasia obscura is a species of moth belonging to the family Saturniidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
Imbrasia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Saturniidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Species of this genus are present in the tropical Africa.
Cinommata is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1882.
Eudyaria is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1898.
Polythysana is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.
Samia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819.
Rhodinia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1892.
Syntherata is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Peter Maassen in 1873.
Gonimbrasia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
Leucopteryx is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Packard in 1901.
Nudaurelia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Rothschild in 1895.
Pselaphelia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1904.
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.
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