''Aglia'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the family
Saturniidae
Saturniidae, members of which are commonly named the saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. The family contains some of the largest species of moths in the world. Notable members include the emperor m ...
first described by Ochsenheimer in 1810. It is the only genus in the subfamily Agliinae.
They don't spin a
cocoon.
Species
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Aglia tau''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
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Aglia ingens''
Naumann, 2003
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Aglia japonica''
Leech, 1889
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Aglia homora''
Jordan (in Seitz), 1911
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Aglia sinjaevi''
Brechlin, 2015[Brechlin R. (2015). "Two new species in the genus ''Aglia'' Ochsenheimer, 1810 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae; Agliinae)". ''Entomo-Satsphingia''. 8(1): 20-25.]
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Aglia spaniolissima''
Gómez-Bustillo, 1980
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Aglia vanschaycki''
Brechlin, 2015
References
Agliinae
Bombycoidea genera
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