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Atlas Moth Attacus atlas, Brookside Gardens🦋

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SpeciesLepidopteraSaturniidae
Arthropods

🦋Attacus atlas

Attacus atlas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Attacus atlas, the Atlas moth, is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia. The species was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

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atlas moth
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderLepidoptera
  5. ›familySaturniidae
  6. ›genusAttacus
  7. ›speciesAttacus atlas
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
  3. tribeAttacini
  4. genusAttacus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. superorderAmphiesmenoptera
  7. orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
  8. suborderGlossata
  9. superfamilyBombycoidea
  10. familySaturniidae
  11. subfamilySaturniinae
  12. tribeAttacini
  13. genusAttacus
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Atlasspinner (de), атлас (bg), atlas velký (cs), Atlasspinder (da), Attacus atlas (es), atlaskehrääjä (fi) … and 20 more languages
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