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Emperor Moths
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Emperor Moths

Saturniinae

The Saturniinae or saturniines are a subfamily of the Family Saturniidae. These are medium to very large-sized moths, with adult wingspans ranging from 7.5 to 15 cm, in some cases even more.

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7 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Saturniini

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Attacini

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Bunaeini

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Urotini

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Micragonini

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Euchroini

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Solini

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 124126.