Saturnia (moth)


Saturnia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Franz Paula von Schrank in 1802. They are large moths, commonly called emperor moths though this is also used for various close relatives in subfamily Saturniinae. Most are Palearctic, but three species occur in the chaparral of California.

Species

The known species of Saturnia are:
Formerly placed here was the Brazilian Arsenura pandora. Whether the autumn emperor moth, here separated in a monotypic genus, is not actually better included in Saturnia needs to be determined; the same goes for the genus Neoris.