''Athletes'' 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 first described by
Ferdinand Karsch in 1896.
Species
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Athletes albicans''
Rougeot, 1955
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Athletes ethra''
(Westwood, 1849)
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Athletes gigas''
(Sonthonnax, 1902)
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Athletes nyanzae''
Rebel, 1904
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Athletes semialba''
(Sonthonnax, 1904)
References
Saturniinae
Bombycoidea genera
Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch
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