Saturnia is a genus of large silkmoths in the family Saturniidae, which the German biologist Franz von Paula Schrank first described in 1802. Its members are commonly named emperor moths, though this
Saturnia pavonia, the small emperor moth, is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Sometimes, the incorrect genus name
Saturnia (moth)
…Saturnia luctifera Jordan in Seitz, 1911 Saturnia pavonia (Linnaeus, 1758) – small emperor moth (sometimes in Eudia) Saturnia pavoniella (Scopoli, 1763) (sometimes in Eudia…