Arthropods
🦋Bombyx mori
Bombyx mori Linnaeus, 1758
カイコ（蚕、学名：Bombyx mori）は、チョウ目（鱗翅目）カイコガ科に属するガの一種。和名はカイコガとされる場合もカイコとされる場合もある。カイコガと呼ばれる場合も、幼虫はカイコと呼ばれることが多い。幼虫はクワ（桑）の葉を食べて育ち、糸を分泌して繭をつくりその中で蛹に変態する。この糸を人間が繊維素材として利用したものが絹である。
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Also called
Silkworm, Don Hugo
Conservation status
Not evaluated
The IUCN Red List has not assessed Bombyx mori yet.
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- Body mass
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- Top speed
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- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderLepidoptera
- ›familyBombycidae
- ›genusBombyx
- ›speciesBombyx mori
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- classInsects · Insecta
- orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
- superfamilyBombycoidea
- genusBombyx
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- superorderAmphiesmenoptera
- orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
- suborderGlossata
- superfamilyBombycoidea
- genusBombyx
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jedwabnik morwowy (pl), 蠶 (zh), Seidenspinner (de), カイコ (ja), 누에나방 (ko), Bombyx mori (es) … and 28 more languages
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