Bombycoidea

Bombycoidea
	Death's-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Macroheterocera
Superfamily:	Bombycoidea
Families
	Anthelidae; Apatelodidae; Bombycidae; Brahmaeidae (syn: Lemoniidae); Carthaeidae; Endromidae (syn: Mirinidae); Eupterotidae; Phiditiidae; Saturniidae; Sphingidae
Diversity
	Over 3,500 species
Synonyms
	Sphingoidea

Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths. It has the silk moths, emperor moths, sphinx moths, and relatives of those. Lasiocampoidea are close relatives. They used to be in this group. They now, however, have 10 families.^[1] Their larvae usually have horns.^[2]

References

↑ Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236
↑ Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002

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[1] Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236

[2] Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002

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