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Saturniidae

Index Saturniidae

Saturniidae, commonly known as saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. [1]

112 relations: Actias luna, Adeloneivaia, Aglia, Aglia tau, Americas, Animal, Anisota, Anisota senatoria, Anisota stigma, Antenna (biology), Antheraea, Antheraea pernyi, Antheraea polyphemus, Aposematism, Arsenura armida, Arsenurinae, Arthropod, Attacus atlas, Automeris, Automeris io, Automeris louisiana, Biostasis, Bombycoidea, Bombyx mori, Botswana, British Isles, Buck moth, Bunaea alcinoe, Callosamia promethea, Caterpillar, Ceratocampinae, Cercophaninae, Cirina forda, Citheronia, Citheronia azteca, Citheronia lobesis, Citheronia regalis, Citheronia sepulcralis, Citheronia splendens, Coloradia, Countershading, Disruptive coloration, Dryandra moth, Dryocampa, Dryocampa rubicunda, Eacles, Eacles imperialis, Ecdysis, Egg cell, Europe, ..., Eyespot (mimicry), Family (biology), Fat, Fossil, Gonimbrasia belina, Hemileuca, Hemileuca nevadensis, Hemileuca oliviae, Hemileucinae, Host (biology), Hybrid (biology), Imbrasia epimethea, Insect, Instar, Larva, Lepidoptera, Liriodendron tulipifera, Lonomia, Macrolepidoptera, Metamorphosis, Mexico, Moth, Neotropical realm, Noctuidae, North America, Oak, Ormiscodes, Oxyteninae, Oxytenis, Pandora moth, Paradaemonia, Pest (organism), Pheromone, Phylogenetics, Pine, Poaceae, Pupa, Reproduction, Salassinae, Samia cynthia, Saturnia (moth), Saturnia pavonia, Saturniinae, Sexual dimorphism, Silk, Southern California, Species, Sphingidae, Subfamily, Subtropics, Sweetbay silkmoth, Syssphinx, Syssphinx bicolor, Syssphinx hubbardi, Syssphinx montana, The Journal of Experimental Biology, Toxin, Tropics, Tussar silk, Urota, Wild silk, Wing coupling. Expand index (62 more) »

Actias luna

Actias luna, the luna moth, is a lime-green, Nearctic Saturniid moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae.

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Adeloneivaia

Adeloneivaia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Aglia

Aglia is a genus of moths in the Saturniidae family.

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Aglia tau

The Tau Emperor (Aglia tau) is a moth of the family Saturniidae.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Anisota

Anisota is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Anisota senatoria

Anisota senatoria (orangestriped oakworm) is a Nearctic member of the family Saturniidae and subfamily Ceratocampinae.

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Anisota stigma

Anisota stigma (spiny oakworm moth) is a moth of the family Saturniidae.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (singular: antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers," are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

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Antheraea

Antheraea is a moth genus belonging to the family Saturniidae.

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Antheraea pernyi

Antheraea pernyi, the Chinese (oak) tussar moth (or "Chinese tasar moth"), also known as temperate tussar moth, is a large moth in the family Saturniidae.

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Antheraea polyphemus

Antheraea polyphemus (polyphemus moth) is a North American member of the family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths.

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Aposematism

Aposematism (from Greek ἀπό apo away, σῆμα sema sign) is a term coined by Edward Bagnall PoultonPoulton, 1890.

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Arsenura armida

The Giant Silk Moth (Arsenura armida) is a moth of the family Saturniidae.

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Arsenurinae

Arsenurinae is a subfamily of the family Saturniidae.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Attacus atlas

Attacus atlas (Atlas moth) is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia.

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Automeris

Automeris is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae and the subfamily Hemileucinae.

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Automeris io

Automeris io (Io moth) is a colorful North American moth in the family Saturniidae.

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Automeris louisiana

Automeris louisiana, the Louisiana eyed silkmoth, is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae.

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Biostasis

Biostasis is the ability of an organism to tolerate environmental changes without having to actively adapt to them.

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Bombycoidea

Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths.

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Bombyx mori

The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar or imago of the domestic silkmoth, Bombyx mori (Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry tree").

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana (Lefatshe la Botswana), is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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Buck moth

The buck moth (Hemileuca maia) is a common insect found in oak forests, stretching in the United States from the southeast to the northeast and as far west as Texas and Kansas.

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Bunaea alcinoe

Bunaea alcinoe or the Cabbage tree emperor moth is an African moth species belonging to the family Saturniidae.

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Callosamia promethea

Callosamia promethea, commonly known as the promethea silkmoth, is a member of the family Saturniidae, which contains approximately 1,300 species.

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Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

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Ceratocampinae

Ceratocampinae is a subfamily of the family Saturniidae.

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Cercophaninae

Cercophaninae is a subfamily of the family Saturniidae, up until recently often treated as a separate family, Cercophanidae.

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Cirina forda

The Pallid Emperor Moth or Shea Defoliator (Cirina forda) is a moth of the Saturniidae family.

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Citheronia

Citheronia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Citheronia azteca

Citheronia azteca is a moth of the family Saturniidae that lives in Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.

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Citheronia lobesis

Citheronia lobesis is a moth of the family Saturniidae.

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Citheronia regalis

The regal moth (Citheronia regalis), also called the royal walnut moth, is a North American moth in the family Saturniidae.

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Citheronia sepulcralis

Citheronia sepulcralis (pine-devil moth) is a Nearctic member of the family Saturniidae and of the subfamily Ceratocampinae.

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Citheronia splendens

Citheronia splendens (splendid royal moth) is a moth of the family Saturniidae.

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Coloradia

Coloradia is a genus of moths of the family Saturniidae.

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Countershading

Countershading, or Thayer's law, is a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the upper side and lighter on the underside of the body.

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Disruptive coloration

Disruptive coloration (also known as disruptive camouflage or disruptive patterning) is a form of camouflage that works by breaking up the outlines of an animal, soldier or military vehicle with a strongly contrasting pattern.

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Dryandra moth

The Dryandra moth (Carthaea saturnioides) is a species of moth that is considered to be the sole member of the family Carthaeidae.

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Dryocampa

Dryocampa is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Dryocampa rubicunda

Dryocampa rubicunda, the rosy maple moth, is a small North American moth in the family Saturniidae, also known as the great silk moths.

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Eacles

Eacles is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Eacles imperialis

Eacles imperialis (imperial moth) is a Nearctic member of the family Saturniidae and subfamily Ceratocampinae.

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

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Egg cell

The egg cell, or ovum (plural ova), is the female reproductive cell (gamete) in oogamous organisms.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Eyespot (mimicry)

An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Fat

Fat is one of the three main macronutrients, along with carbohydrate and protein.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Gonimbrasia belina

Gonimbrasia belina is a species of emperor moth which is native to the warmer parts of southern Africa.

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Hemileuca

Hemileuca is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Hemileuca nevadensis

Hemileuca nevadensis, the Nevada buck moth, is a species in the family Saturniidae.

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Hemileuca oliviae

Hemileuca oliviae, the range caterpillar, is a species of insect in the family of moths known as Saturniidae.

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Hemileucinae

Hemileucinae is a subfamily of the family Saturniidae.

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Host (biology)

In biology and medicine, a host is an organism that harbours a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont), the guest typically being provided with nourishment and shelter.

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid, or crossbreed, is the result of combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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Imbrasia epimethea

Imbrasia epimethea is a species of moth belonging to the Saturniidae family.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Instar

An instar (from the Latin "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (ecdysis), until sexual maturity is reached.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).

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Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron (the other member is Liriodendron chinense), and the tallest eastern hardwood.

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Lonomia

The genus Lonomia is a moderate-sized group of fairly cryptic saturniid moths from South America, famous not for the adults, but for their highly venomous caterpillars, which are responsible for a few deaths each year, especially in southern Brazil, and the subject of hundreds of published medical studies.

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Macrolepidoptera

Macrolepidoptera is a group within the insect order Lepidoptera.

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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Moth

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.

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Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

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Noctuidae

The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, is the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of its clades are constantly changing, along with the other families of Noctuoidea.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Ormiscodes

Ormiscodes is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Oxyteninae

Oxyteninae is a subfamily of the family Saturniidae, until recently classified as a separate family, Oxytenidae.

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Oxytenis

Oxytenis is a genus of moth in the family Saturniidae and subfamily Oxyteninae.

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Pandora moth

The pandora moth or pandora pinemoth, Coloradia pandora, is an insect belonging to the moth genus Coloradia.

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Paradaemonia

Paradaemonia is a genus of moths in the Saturniidae family.

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Pest (organism)

A pest is a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns including crops, livestock, and forestry.

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Pheromone

A pheromone (from Ancient Greek φέρω phero "to bear" and hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμή "impetus") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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Reproduction

Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents".

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Salassinae

Salassa is a genus of moths in the Saturniidae family.

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Samia cynthia

Samia cynthia (ailanthus silkmoth) is a saturniid moth, used to produce silk fabric but not as domesticated as the silkworm, Bombyx mori.

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Saturnia (moth)

Saturnia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae.

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Saturnia pavonia

Saturnia pavonia (small emperor moth) is a moth of the family Saturniidae.

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Saturniinae

The Saturniinae or saturniines are a subfamily of the Family Saturniidae.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Sphingidae

The Sphingidae are a family of moths (Lepidoptera), commonly known as hawk moths, sphinx moths, and hornworms; it includes about 1,450 species.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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Subtropics

The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.

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Sweetbay silkmoth

The sweetbay silkmoth (Callosamia securifera) is a saturniid in the genus Callosamia.

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Syssphinx

Syssphinx is a genus of moths of the family Saturniidae.

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Syssphinx bicolor

Syssphinx bicolor, the honey locust moth, is a North American moth in the family Saturniidae.

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Syssphinx hubbardi

Syssphinx hubbardi, or Hubbard's silk moth, is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae.

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Syssphinx montana

Syssphinx montana is a moth of the family Saturniidae.

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The Journal of Experimental Biology

The Journal of Experimental Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of comparative physiology and integrative biology.

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Toxin

A toxin (from toxikon) is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms; synthetic toxicants created by artificial processes are thus excluded.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Tussar silk

Tussar silk (alternatively spelled as Tussah, Tushar, Tassar, Tussore, Tasar, Tussur, Tusser and also known as (Sanskrit) Kosa silk) is produced from larvae of several species of silkworms belonging to the moth genus Antheraea, including A. assamensis, A. mylitta, A. paphia, A. pernyi, A. roylei and A. yamamai.

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Urota

Urota is a genus of moths in the Saturniidae family.

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Wild silk

Wild silks have been known and used in many countries from early times, although the scale of production is far smaller than that from cultivated silkworms.

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Wing coupling

Some four-winged insect orders, such as the Lepidoptera, have developed a wide variety of morphological wing coupling mechanisms in the imago which render these taxa as "functionally dipterous" (effectively two-winged) for efficient insect flight.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturniidae

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