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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Saturniidae |
| Subfamily: | Saturniinae |
| Genus: | Syntherata Maassen, [1873] |
Syntherata is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Peter Maassen in 1873. [1]
Saturnia is a genus of large silkmoths in the family Saturniidae, which the German biologist Franz von Paula Schrank first described in 1802. Its members are commonly named emperor moths, though this is also used for various close relatives in subfamily Saturniinae. Most species are Palearctic, but three, commonly called "saturnia moths", inhabit the chaparral of California: S. mendocino, S. walterorum, and S. albofasciata.
Antheraea is a genus of moths belonging to the family Saturniidae. It was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Several species of this genus have caterpillars which produce wild silk of commercial importance. Commonly called "tussar silk", the moths are named tussar moths after the fabric.
Gilles Terral was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera Parnassiinae and Saturniidae.
Attacus is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae.
Loepa is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.
Aglia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Ochsenheimer in 1810. It is the only genus in the subfamily Agliinae.
Janiodes is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Karl Jordan in 1924.
Dirphia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819.
Gamelioides is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Claude Lemaire in 1988.
Molippa is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.
Periphoba is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820.
Pseudautomeris is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Claude Lemaire in 1967.
Samia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819.
Copaxa is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.
Cricula is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.
Neodiphthera is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. It was described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1982.
Pararhodia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1914.
Rhodinia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1892.
Actias groenendaeli is a moth of the family Saturniidae first described by Roepke in 1954. It is found in Indonesia.
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