Bombycoidea

Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths. It has the silk moths, emperor moths, sphinx moths, and relatives of those. Lasiocampoidea are close relatives. They used to be in this group. They now, however, have 10 families.Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236 Their larvae usually have horns.Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, , 2002

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