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
- Luna Moth in English
- Luna Moth in English
- Luna Moth in English
- Amerikaanse maanvlinder in Dutch
- North American Luna Moth in English
- North American Luna Moth in English
Bibliographic References
- 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.