Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic

(including Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, western Siberia and western Central Asia)

Systematic List

FAMILY Saturniidae Boisduval, [1837] 1834

GENUS Graellsia Grote, 1896

• Graellsia isabellae (Graëlls, 1849) -- Spanish Moon Moth




GENUS Actias Leach, 1815

• Actias selene eberti Rougeot, 1969 -- Indian Moon Moth




GENUS Saturnia Schrank, 1802

• Saturnia pyri ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) -- Great Peacock Moth
• Saturnia atlantica Lucas, 1848 -- Atlas Peacock Moth
• Saturnia pavonia (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Small Emperor Moth
• Saturnia josephinae (Schawerda, [1924]) -- Andalucian Emperor Moth
• Saturnia pavoniella (Scopoli, 1763) -- Ligurian Emperor Moth
• Saturnia spini ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) -- Sloe Emperor Moth
• Saturnia cephalariae Christoph, 1885 -- Armenian Emperor Moth




GENUS Rinaca Walker, 1855

• Rinaca lindia (Moore, 1865) -- Birch Emperor Moth




GENUS Perisomena Walker, 1855

• Perisomena caecigena caecigena (Kupido, 1825) -- Autumn Emperor Moth
• Perisomena caecigena stroehlei (Nässig, 2002) -- Autumn Emperor Moth




GENUS Neoris Moore, 1862

• Neoris huttoni naessigi De Freina, 1992 -- Hutton's Emperor Moth
• Neoris huttoni huttoni Moore, 1862 -- Hutton's Emperor Moth
• Neoris huttoni galeropa (Püngeler, 1900) -- Hutton's Emperor Moth
• Neoris huttoni shadulla Moore, 1872 -- Hutton's Emperor Moth
• Neoris codyi (Peigler, 1996) -- Cody's Emperor Moth




GENUS Antheraea Hübner, [1819] 1816

• Antheraea yamamai yamamai (Guérin-Méneville, 1861) -- Japanese Oak Silkmoth
• Antheraea pernyi pernyi (Guérin-Méneville, 1855) -- Chinese Oak Silkmoth




GENUS Samia Hübner, [1819] 1816

• Samia cynthia cynthia (Drury, 1773) -- Cynthia Moth




GENUS Aglia Ochsenheimer, 1810

• Aglia tau (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Tau Emperor

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 published 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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