Saturnie of the oak of Japan

The saturnie of the oak of Japan is a Lépidoptère pertaining to Saturniidae.

• Distribution: Ceylon, India, Japan, Yugoslavia.

The species was introduced in France by Felix Edouard Guerin-Méneville (1799-1874) in 1855 like the Silkworm Tussah ( Antheraea pernyi ) and the Bombyx of the ailante ( Samia cynthia ) in order to find a species able to replace the Silkworm reaches Pébrine then.

Source

• PC. - Rougeot, P. Viette (1978). Guide of the night butterflies of Europe and North Africa . Delachaux and Niestlé (Lausanne).

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