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Actias luna Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 10th ed., Vol. 1, 824 pp. [in Latin] Available at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Saturniidae
genus
Actias
species
Actias luna

Name

Synonyms
Actias bolli Wagner, 1876
Actias dictynna Walker, 1855
Actias lacrimans Niepelt, 1932
Actias maasseni Kirby, 1892
Actias mariae Benjamin, 1922
Actias rossi Ross, 1872
Actias rubromarginata Davis, 1912
Actias rubrosuffusa Cockerell, 1914
Homonyms
Actias luna Linnaeus, 1758
Common names
Amerikaanse maanvlinder in Dutch
Amerikai holdasszövő in Hungarian
Amerikansk månespinner in Norwegian Bokmål
Gwyfyn lwna in Welsh
Holdasszövő lepke in Hungarian
Księżycówka amerykańska in Polish
Luna Moth in English
Luna Moth in English
Luna Moth in English
Luna Moth in English
Mariposa-lua in Portuguese
Martináč měsíčitý in Czech
Ngengat luna in Indonesian
North American Luna Moth in English
North American Moon Moth in English
Polilla Luna Norteamericana in Spanish
papillon lune in French
Сатурния луна in Russian
عثة قمرية in Arabic
చంద్ర చిమ్మట in Telugu
അമ്പിളിക്കണ്ണൻ in Malayalam
アメリカオオミズアオ in Japanese
Amerikaanse maanvlinder in Dutch
North American Luna Moth in English
North American Luna Moth in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Tuskes, Paul M., James P. Tuttle, and Michael M. Collins, 1996: null. The wild silk moths of North America: a natural history of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada. ix + 250.
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