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saturniid, a. and n. Ent.|səˈtɜːnɪɪd|
Also Saturniid.
[f. mod.L. family name Saturniidæ, f. generic name Saturnia (F. von P. Schrank Fauna Boica (1802) II. 149): see Saturnian a. and n.2]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the family Saturniidæ, which includes large, mainly tropical moths with a few species of temperate regions.
B. n. A moth of the family Saturniidæ.
1892W. L. Distant Naturalist in Transvaal 122 The fine Saturniid moth Urota sinope. 1928G. H. Carpenter Biol. Insects xii. 378 The large Chinese Saturniid silk-moth..is represented in Japan and Java by readily distinguishable forms. 1952Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XCVIII. 355/1 The saturniid moths appear to be most closely related to the small South American families Oxyteridae and Cercopharidae. Ibid. 365/2 The eyes of saturniids are large in relation to the head. 1964[see lasiocampid n. and a.]. 1979Smithsonian X. 68 (caption) Saturniid moth..is one of the many colorful insects harbored in Costa Rica's forests. |