Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic

Systematic List

FAMILY Saturniidae Boisduval, [1837] 1834

GENUS Graellsia Grote, 1896

• Graellsia isabellae (Graëlls, 1849)




GENUS Actias Leach, 1815

• Actias selene eberti Rougeot, 1969




GENUS Saturnia Schrank, 1802

• Saturnia pyri ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Saturnia atlantica Lucas, 1848
• Saturnia pavonia pavonia (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Saturnia pavonia josephinae (Schawerda, [1924])
• Saturnia pavoniella (Scopoli, 1763)
• Saturnia spini ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
• Saturnia cephalariae Christoph, 1885




GENUS Caligula Moore, 1862

• Caligula lindia Moore, 1865




GENUS Perisomena Walker, 1855

• Perisomena caecigena caecigena (Kupido, 1825)
• Perisomena caecigena stroehlei (Nässig, 2002)




GENUS Neoris Moore, 1862

• Neoris huttoni naessigi De Freina, 1992
• Neoris huttoni huttoni Moore, 1862
• Neoris huttoni galeropa (Püngeler, 1900)
• Neoris huttoni shadulla Moore, 1872
• Neoris codyi (Peigler, 1996)




GENUS Antheraea Hübner, [1819] 1816

• Antheraea yamamai yamamai (Guérin-Méneville, 1861)
• Antheraea pernyi pernyi (Guérin-Méneville, 1855)




GENUS Samia Hübner, [1819] 1816

• Samia cynthia cynthia (Drury, 1773)




GENUS Aglia Ochsenheimer, 1810

• Aglia tau (Linnaeus, 1758)

Note: The small Afrotropical species Ludia hansali (Felder, 1874) has been reported as occurring in Morocco. This is an error due to misinterpretation of data on a specimen label.

Coverage and sources

This work is a general account of the native and introduced species and subspecies of Saturniidae that occur within the zoogeographical boundaries of the western Palaearctic region.

The two main sources of information for this site were:

ROUGEOT, P.-C. (1971). Les Bombycoides (Lepidoptera-Bombycoidea) de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen 1, Lemoniidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Attacidae, Endromididae: vi + 164pp., 2 pls. Paris, France: Masson et Cie Editeurs.

NÄSSIG, W. (1981). Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saturniidae und der Brahmaeidae des Iran und der Türkei (Lepidoptera) - Teil 2: Saturniidae. Nachr. ent. Ver. Apollo (N.F.) 2(1): 1--39.

References

A number of references were consulted in the preparation of this work; these are listed in the reference section. Additionally, this work would have been difficult to produce without the help received from a number of people. These are acknowledged in the acknowledgements section.

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This reference can be quoted in publications as: Pittaway, A.R. (2000-2008). Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic. http://tpittaway.tripod.com/silk/satlist.htm