Silkworm Tussah

The Antheraea pernyi is a Lépidoptère pertaining to Saturniidae.
Il is called silkworm Tussah in its form caterpillar.

• Distribution: area of the river Love in the south of the Popular republic of China.

• Scale of the male: from 60 to 65 Misters

• Habitat: forests of oaks.

• Plant-hosts: Quercus

The species was introduced in France by Felix Edouard Guerin-Méneville (1799-1874) in 1855 like the Saturnie of the oak of Japan ( Antheraea yamamai ) 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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