Attacus taprobanis

Attacus taprobanis
Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Attacus
Species:
A. taprobanis
Binomial name
Attacus taprobanis
Moore, 1882[1]

Attacus taprobanis[2] is a moth of family Saturniidae. It is native to southern India and Sri Lanka.[3] This species is very similar in morphology to the much more widely distributed Attacus atlas. It was once considered a subspecies of A. atlas.[4]

  1. ^ "Attacus taprobanis, Moore, 1882–1883". gbif.org. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  2. ^ Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. II. London: L. Reeve & co. pp. 124–125.
  3. ^ Peigler, Richard S. (1989). A revision of the Indo-Australian genus Attacus (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Lepidoptera Research Foundation. ISBN 0961146427. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  4. ^ Savela, Markku. "Attacus atlas (Linnaeus, 1758)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 18 November 2018.