Hawk, Sphinx, Silk, Emperor, and Allied Moths
Bombycoidea
Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths, including the silk moths, sphinx moths, saturniids (including giant silk moths), and relatives. The superfamily Lasiocampoidea is a close relative and was historically sometimes merged in this group. After many years of debate and shifting taxonomies, the most recent classifications treat the superfamily as containing 10 constituent families.
10 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Sphinx Moths
familySphingidae
Emperor and Giant Silk Moths
familySaturniidae
American Silkworm Moths
familyApatelodidae
Anthelid Lappet Moths
familyAnthelidae
Monkey Moths
familyEupterotidae
Silkworm Moths
familyBombycidae
Glory Moths
familyEndromidae
Brahmin Moths
familyBrahmaeidae
Phiditiidae
familyPhiditiidae
Carthaeidae
familyCarthaeidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 47214.