Saturnia (moth)

Taxobox
name = "Saturnia"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Saturnia pyri"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Saturniidae
genus = "Saturnia"
genus_authority = Schrank, 1802 [cite web |url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/bombycoidea/saturniidae/saturniinae/saturnia/index.html |title="Saturnia" Schrank, 1802 |date=2005-11-06 |author=Markku Savela]

"Saturnia" is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. They are large moths, commonly called "emperors". Most are Palearctic, but three species occur in the chaparral of California ("S. mendocino", "S. walterorum" and "S. albofasciata").

pecies

*"Saturnia pavonia" — small emperor
*"Saturnia pyri" — emperor
*"Saturnia mendocino" — Mendocino saturnia [cite web |url=http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3298 |title=Mendocino saturnia moth, "Saturnia mendocino" Behrens, 1876 |author=Paul A. Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue (coordinators) |year=2006 |work=Butterflies and Moths of North America]
*"Saturnia walterorum" — Walter's saturnia [cite web |url=http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3299 |title=Walters' saturnia moth"Saturnia walterorum" Hogue & Johnson, 1958 |author=Paul A. Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue (coordinators) |year=2006 |work=Butterflies and Moths of North America]
*"Saturnia albofasciata" — white-streaked saturnia [cite web |url=http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3300 |title=White-streaked saturnia moth, "Saturnia albofasciata" (Johnson, 1938) |author=Paul A. Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue (coordinators) |year=2006 |work=Butterflies and Moths of North America]

ee also

*cite web |url=http://tpittaway.tripod.com/silk/satlist.htm |title=Saturniidae of Europe |date=2007-04-06 |author=A. R. Pittaway
*cite web |url=http://www.saturnia.de/ |title=Saturnia Homepage |author=Wolfgang A. Nässig |date=2006-11-16

References