Eacles imperialis Drury, 1773

Имаго Eacles imperialis

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. [9, 85]

Imperial Moth.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:15765

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Nearctic, Neotropic.

Имаго Eacles imperialis

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].

Subspecies of Eacles imperialis

Eacles imperialis anchicayensis Lemaire, 1971. [187]
E. i. cacicus (Boisduval, 1868). [9]
E. i. decoris Rothschild, 1907. [9]
E. i. imperialis Drury, 1773. [186]
E. i. nobilis Neumoegen, 1891. [9]
E. i. opaca (Burmeister, 1878). [9]
E. i. oslari Rothschild, 1907. [9]
E. i. pini Michener, 1950. [9]
E. i. quintanensis Lemaire, 1971. [9]
E. i. tucumana Rothschild, 1907. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Konstantin Kraevsky.

Text data: Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[22] Saturniidae World (saturniidae-web.de), 2011
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[186] Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org