NOT OF BIOSECURITY CONCERN
Copromorphoidea
Hyblaeoidea
Thyridoidea
Sphingoidea
While these four superfamilies are not directly related to Bombycoidea, they present with the main features of Bombycoids and all five superfamilies have the stem of median vein absent in the fore and hind wing discal cell.
Bombycoidea
Saturniidae (emperor moths) 2,349 approximate described species – of Biosecurity concern
Saturniidae Chief Distribution
Cosmopolitan – abundant in tropical Oriental areas
Saturniidae Major Hosts
Roseaceae, Betulaceae, Aceraceae, Juglandaceae, Ulmaceae, Fabaceae, Myricaceae, Salicaceae, Grossulariaceae, Lauraceae, Salicaceae, Tiliaceae, Ulmaceae, Fabaceae
Saturniidae Further Diagnosis
Usually two pairs of pectinations per antennal flagellomeres all on one plane; usually with prominent eyespots on wings; forewing discal cell closed or open, Rs branches stalked together with one or two absent, R free or stalked with stem of Rs, M1 and Rs either connate, stalked or remote, M2 arising midway between M1 and M3 sometimes closer to M1 than M3, CuP absent; hind wing usually closed, at times an oblique crossvein between the subcosta and the upper edge of discal cell, M1 and M2 often approximate, M3 starting from lower angle of discal cell, CuA1 an CuA2 mostly remote from each other, CuP absent, 1A+2A without basal loop; genitalia variable (Common 1990, Kristensen 1999).
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