Bombycoidea

Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths. It has the silk moths, emperor moths, sphinx moths, and relatives of those. Lasiocampoidea are close relatives. They used to be in this group. They now, however, have 10 families.^[1] Their larvae usually have horns.^[2]

Bombycoidea
Death's-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Clade:	Macroheterocera
Superfamily:	Bombycoidea
Families
Anthelidae Apatelodidae Bombycidae Brahmaeidae (syn: Lemoniidae) Carthaeidae Endromidae (syn: Mirinidae) Eupterotidae Phiditiidae Saturniidae Sphingidae
Diversity
Over 3,500 species
Synonyms
Sphingoidea