ADW: Bombyx: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Protostomia (protostomes)
      - Ecdysozoa
        
        Arthropoda
        
        Class Insecta
        
        Order Lepidoptera
        
        Superfamily Bombycoidea
        
        Family Bombycidae
        
        Genus Bombyx
        
        Species Bombyx arracanensis
        
        Species Bombyx barnardi
        
        Species Bombyx brunnea
        
        Species Bombyx crenulata
        
        Species Bombyx croesiformis
        
        Species Bombyx dapsilis
        
        Species Bombyx fortunatus
        
        Species Bombyx fumosa
        
        Species Bombyx fuscata
        
        Species Bombyx horsfieldi
        
        Species Bombyx incomposita
        
        Species Bombyx lemée-oauli
        
        Species Bombyx lugubris
        
        Species Bombyx mandarina
        
        Species Bombyx meridionalis
        
        Species Bombyx mioleuca
        
        Species Bombyx mori
        
        Species Bombyx murisolens
        
        Species Bombyx ocularis
        
        Species Bombyx picta
        
        Species Bombyx polygoni
        
        Species Bombyx sinensis
        
        Species Bombyx textor

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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