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family saturniidae - important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known | ||
Saturniidae, family Saturniidae | ||
arthropod family any of the arthropods | ||
lepidoptera, order lepidoptera moths and butterflies | ||
saturniid, saturniid moth large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons | ||
genus saturnia, saturnia type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth | ||
eacles, genus eacles imperial moths | ||
giant silkworm, wild wilkworm, silkworm the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | ||
actias, genus actias luna moths | ||
genus hyalophora, hyalophora American silkworm moth | ||
genus samia, samia silkworm moths | ||
automeris, genus automeris io moth | ||
antheraea, genus antheraea large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality |