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Automeris  Hübner, 1819
Taxonomic Serial No.: 935997

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2014   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderLepidoptera  – butterflies, moths, papillons, papillons de nuit, Borboleta, Mariposa  
                                  SuperfamilyBombycoidea   
                                     FamilySaturniidae Boisduval, 1837 – giant silkworm moths, royal moths  
                                        SubfamilyHemileucinae Walker, 1855  
                                           TribeHemileucini Walker, 1855  
                                              GenusAutomeris Hübner, 1819  
    Direct Children:  
                                                 Species Automeris cecrops (Boisduval, 1875) – Cecrops Eyed Silkmoth 
                                                 Species Automeris io (Fabricius, 1775) – Io Moth 
                                                 Species Automeris iris (Walker, 1865) – Iris Eyed Silkmoth 
                                                 Species Automeris louisiana Ferguson and Brou, 1981 – Louisiana Eyed Silkmoth 
                                                 Species Automeris patagoniensis Lemaire, M. J. Smith and Wolfe, 1992 – Patagonia Eyed Silkmoth 
                                                 Species Automeris randa Druce, 1894 – Randa's Eyed Silkmoth 
                                                 Species Automeris zephyria Grote, 1882 – Zephyr Eyed Silkmoth 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Tuskes, Paul M., James P. Tuttle, and Michael M. Collins  
  Publication Date: 1996   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The wild silk moths of North America: a natural history of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada   
  Page(s): ix + 250   
  Publisher: Cornell University Press   
  Publication Place: Ithaca, New York, United States   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8014-3130-1   
  Notes: drawings by Margaret A. Tuttle   
  Reference for: Automeris   
       

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