Actias aliena Butler, 1879 is a animal in the Saturniidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Actias aliena Butler, 1879

Actias aliena Butler, 1879

Actias aliena is a large Japanese saturniid silk moth with a sequenced 15,243 bp mitochondrial genome.

Family
Genus
Actias
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Actias aliena Butler, 1879

Actias aliena (Butler, 1879) is a moth species belonging to the family Saturniidae. It is a large silk moth with a wingspan between 100 and 110 millimeters. This moth is found in Japan. Its mitochondrial genome has been sequenced, and it measures 15,243 base pairs in length.

Photo: (c) Takaaki Hattori, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Takaaki Hattori · cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Saturniidae Actias

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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