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Sri Lankan Atlas Moth
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Sri Lankan Atlas Moth

Attacus taprobanis

Attacus taprobanis is a moth of Saturniidae family. It is native to southern India and Sri Lanka, and is the only species in the genus Attacus on the Asian mainland. This species is very similar in morphology to the much more widely distributed Attacus atlas. It was once considered a subspecies of A. atlas.

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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 125061.