Hawk, Sphinx, Silk, Emperor, and Allied Moths
Bombycoidea
Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths. It contains the silk moths, emperor moths, sphinx moth, and relatives. The Lasiocampoidea are close relatives and sometimes merged in this group. Their larvae exhibit horns.
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.