Eacles imperialis Drury, 1773

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Bombycoidea → family Saturniidae → subfamily Ceratocampinae → genus Eacles → species Eacles imperialis
Species name(s)
Eacles imperialis Drury, 1773 = Phalaena imperialis Drury, 1773 = imperatoria (Smith, 1797) = Bombyx didyma Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 = Eacles punctatissima Neumoegen, 1891.
Imperial Moth
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:15765
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Nearctic, Neotropic.

Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela [22]. Vasiliy Feoktistov.
Subspecies Eacles imperialis
- E. i. anchicayensis Lemaire, 1971.
- E. i. cacicus (Boisduval, 1868).
- E. i. decoris Rothschild, 1907.
- E. i. imperialis Drury 1773.
- E. i. nobilis Neumoegen, 1891.
- E. i. opaca (Burmeister, 1878).
- E. i. oslari Rothschild, 1907.
- E. i. pini Michener, 1950.
- E. i. quintanensis Lemaire, 1971.
- E. i. tucumana Rothschild, 1907.
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Konstantin Kraevsky. Text data: Vasiliy Feoktistov.
Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.
References
- [22] Saturniidae World (saturniidae-web.de), 2011
- [85] Lepidoptera.ru (Insecta.pro previous version / cтарая версия Insecta.pro)
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