WORLD'S LARGEST SATURNIIDAE SITE

Actias luna pairing, Lake County, Florida,
April 16, 2017, courtesy of Taylor Jones; First Place Photo, Adult moth, 2017

Automeris parafera eighth instar,
Puno, Peru, courtesy of Viktor Suter and Bernhard Wenczel; First Place Photo, Larval, 2017

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Visit Central and South American state, provincial, regional, departmental, etc., checklists for Central and South American Countries. These lists have been created for Arsenurinae and Ceratocampinae, and for Attacinae (Attacini and Saturniini), and eventually will be completed for Hemileucinae. They will be continuously updated as new information arrives. The lists are intended as id (pictoral-eventually) checklists for people with advanced collections. This is probably the most extensive project on the WLSS with regard to the amount of time I have devoted to it and will continue to devote to it.

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New! October 2007 All Leps Barcode of Life
The All Leps Barcode of Life project is providing much data for worldwide distributions of Saturniidae and Sphingidae species as well as for species of other lepidopteran families. The project should also greatly help with classification of specimens through DNA analysis.

New! February 2007 Publications: There are many excellent journals/magazines/papers being published. They will be listed through the link, hopefully with complete contact and subscription details, as well as a brief description. Editors/Authors can have their works listed here.

New! April 2008 New member Rakha Singh of the United Kingdom maintains a website at www.butterflyimages.co.uk.

Rakha offers enlarged prints of worldwide butterflies and will soon be expanding to include some Saturniidae.

Check out the website!

I have not seen the finished product, but it sounds interesting. The prints, which can come in a variety of sizes, would probably make spectacular displays.

New! August 2010 Canada: Provincial Checklists.

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NEW! Publications: Listings of members's publications with access via email addresses of authors.

Listings

Saturniidae Articles: Bibliography

Special Collections:


B. Wenczel & V. Suter
Kirby Wolfe
Charles Bordelon/Ed Knudson
Leroy Simon

Pablo Wagner
Thibaud Decaens
Undetermined Saturniidae
Weiwei Zhang

Kirby Wolfe released his Saturniidae CD in 2005. It is an excellent compilation of his work. See reviews and access Kirby's ordering information by clicking on the banner below. Use your browser "Back" button to return to this page.

Links to other sites created and maintained by Bill Oehlke:

Sphingidae of Prince Edward Island
Sphingidae of the Americas
North American Catocala website

Index of all Canadian and U.S.A. Saturniidae species
Brahmaeidae
Lemoniidae
Tim Dyson: Night Vision Photography

Many estimate that there are between 1200 and 1500 different Saturniidae species worldwide. I suspect the number is between 1500 and 2000 as new species are being discovered every year.

Special thanks to Thierry Bouyer for his Catalogue of African Saturniidae and to J. B. Heppner, editor, for his Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera: Checklist Part 4B . Both of these resources have been used to verify and, in many cases, correct taxonomies taken from the internet.

Claude Lemaire's books: Hemileucinae, Ceratocampinae, Arsenurinae, Attacinae have been used to confirm identifications and update South and Central American checklists.

Darge's Saturniidae I and Saturniidae II are being used to update/correct African checklists.

Oberprielier's Emperor Moths of Namibia and personal communication with Dr. Oberprieler provides for accuracy of checklists for countries of Southern Africa. Pinhey's Emperor Moths of South and South-Central Africa with adjustments/commentary by Rolf Oberprieler has been used extensively.

Ulrich Paukstadt has provided checklists for Southeast Asia. Ulrich has also provided much information, many images and helps with identifications.

A Revision of the Silkmoth Genus Samia by R. Peigler and S. Naumann has been used to confirm identifications of Samia species and update ranges.

The Wild Silkmoths of North America by Tuskes, Tuttle and Collins has been used extensively as a United States reference.

Special thanks to photographers Leroy Simon, Kirby Wolfe, Chris Conlan, Scott Smith, Eric van Schayck, Bernhard Wenczel, Viktor Suter, Thibaud Decaens, Teemu Klemetti, Andreas Reikert, Alan Marson, Martin Jagelka, Tony Pittaway, Ulrich Paukstadt, Steve Ife, Jan Hellert, Anthony Darby, Alain van Vaive, Mario Ioppolo, Jeff Ausmus, Rodolphe Rougerie, Carlot Didier, Dan Janzen, Bob Jensen, Jean Haxaire, Manuel Balcazar-Lara, Don Adams, Kathleen Hawkins, Todd and Steve Huffman, Dean Morewood, Vernon Brou, Ty Clark, Manel Moreno, Bob Vuattoux, Ismael and Marie Lumawig, Tom Tewksbury, Joel Szymczyk, Scott Henninger, Dave Wikle, Russell Witkop, Bill Welch, Jose Boettger, John Campbell, Kurt Himmelbauer, Otso Reunenen, Kari Korhonen, Frans Desmet, Mark Lasko, Pablo Wagner, Shin-ichi Ohshima, Andrey Timchenko, Jean Michael-Mays, Entomo Service, Theron Morgan-Brown, John Ciseski, Bob Muller, Jim Anderson, Jay Lindh, Roger Kendrick, Richard Fisher, Hideshi Naka, Kenichiro Nakao, Mr. Kishida and the many others who have provided images/information/updates/corrections. Charles Bordelon has begun to send me great images of spread specimens from the TLSSS collection (combined collection of Charles Bordelon and Ed Knudson).

Information about and pictures of many of the world's large and showy moths (Saturniidae) are available through the hypertext coloured links listed below. Genera within a particular subfamily all have the same colour link. The following colour code is used:

AGLIINAE: AGLIA OF EUROPE

ARSENURINAE: PRIMITIVE AND VERY LARGE MOTHS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, EARTH PUPATORS

CERATOCAMPINAE: REGAL AND IMPERIAL MOTHS OF THE AMERICAS, EARTH PUPATORS,

HEMILEUCINAE: SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED MOTHS OF AMERICAS, SPINY LARVAE

MICRAGONINI: AFRICAN MOTHS

CERCOPHANIDAE: CHILEAN MOTHS

OXYTENINAE: SMALL MOTHS FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

SALASSINAE: SALASSA

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Attacini: "Forewing Apex Eyespot", worldwide, cocoons

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Bunaeini: Emperor moths of Africa, earth pupators

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Saturniini: worldwide, cocoons

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Urotini: Emperor moths of Africa, earth pupators

Clicking on one of the genera names will take you to a page listing known species within the genus. Subsequent clicking on a species name will take you to another page with pictures and information, including natural ranges, larval host plants, flight times and brood seasons,etc.

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ACANTHOCAMPA
ACTIAS
ADAFROPTILUM
ADELOCEPHALA
ADELONEIVAIA
ADELOWALKERIA
ADETOMERIS
AGAPEMA
AGLIA
ALINDABUNAEA
ALMEIDAIA
ALMEIDELLA
ANCALAESPINA
ANCISTROTA
ANGELICA
ANISOTA
ANTHERAEA
ANTHERAEOPSIS
ANTHERINA
ANTISTATHMOPTERA......
ARCHAEOATTACUS
ARCHAEOSAMIA
ARGEMA
ARIAS
ARSENURA
ASTHENIDIA
ATHLETES
ATTACUS
AURIVILLIUS
AURORAIA
AUSTROLIPPA
AUTOMERELLA
AUTOMERINA
AUTOMERIS
AUTOMEROPSIS
AUTOMERULA
BATHYPHLEBIA
BUNAEA
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CAIO
CALIGULA
CALLODIRPHIA
CALLOSAMIA
CALOSATURNIA
CAMPIMOPTILUM
CARNEGIA
CATACANTHA
CATHARISA
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CERATESA
CERCOPHANA
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CRICULA
DACUNJU
DECACHORDA
DIHIRPA
DIRPHIA
DIRPHIELLA
DIRPHIOPSIS
DRYOCAMPA
DYSDAEMONIA..........
EACLES
EOCHROA
EOSIA
EPIPHORA
ERIOGYNA
ERYTHROMERIS
EUBERGIA
EUBERGIOIDES
EUDAEMONIA
EUDIA
EUDYARIA
EUPACKARDIA
EUSTERA
GAMELIA
GAMELIOIDES
GIACOMELLIA
GONIMBRASIA
GOODIA
GRAELLSIA
GRAMMOPELTA .......
GUILLEMEIA
GYNANISA
HELICONISA
HEMILEUCA
HENIOCHA
HIDRIPA
HIRPIDA
HISPANIODIRPHIA
HOLOCERINA
HOMOEOPTERYX
HYALOPHORA
HYLESIA
HYLESIOPSIS
HYPERCHIRIA
HYPERCHIRIOIDES
HYPERMERINA
IMBRASIA
ITHOMISA
JAIBA
JANIODES
KENTROLEUCA
LEMAIREIA
LEMAIREODIRPHIA
LEUCANELLA
LEUCOPTERYX
LOBOBUNAEA
LOEPA
LONOMIA
LOXOLOMIA
LUDIA
MACHAEROSEMA
MALTAGOREA
MANODIRPHIA
MEGACERESA
MELANOCERA
MEROLEUCA
MEROLEUCOIDES
MEXICANTHA
MICRAGONE
MICRODULIA
MIELKESIA
MOLIPPA
MONTANAURELIA
NEORCARNEGIA
NEOCERCOPHANA
NEODIPHTHERA
NEOHOMOEOPTERYX
NEORIS
NUDAURELIA
OITICELLA
OPODIPHTHERA
ORMISCODES
ORTHOGONIOPTILUM......
OTHORENE
OXYTENIS
PARADAEMONIA
PARADIRPHIA
PARARHODIA
PARUSTA
PERIGA
PERISOMENA
PERIPHOBA
POLYTHYSANA
PROCITHERONIA
PROHYLESIA
PROTOGYNANISA
PSELAPHELIA
PSEUDANTHERAEA
PSEUDAPHELIA
PSEUDAUTOMERIS
PSEUDIMBRASIA
PSEUDOBUNAEA
PSEUDODIRPHIA
PSEUDOLUDIA
PSIGIDA
PSILOPYGIDA
PSILOPYGOIDES
PTILOSCOLA
RACHESA
RHESCYNTIS
RHODINIA
RHODIRPHIA
RINACA
ROHANIELLA
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SALASSA
SAMIA
SATURNIA
SCHAUSIELLA
SCOLESA
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SOLUS
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SYSSPHINX
TAGOROPSIS
TAGOROPSIELLA
TELEA
THERINIA
THYELLA
TITAEA
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UBAENA
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