| Higher taxa: |
Bombycidae (family)/
Bombycinae (subfamily)/
Theophila (genus)/
|
| Status: | Synonym
, the accepted name is Bombyx
|
| Authorship: | Moore, 1862 |
| Citation: | Theophila, nobis |
| Taxon remarks: | Type species: Bombyx bengalensis Moore, 1862. Transactions of the entomological Society of London (3) 1(4): 315. By subsequent designation by Kirby, 1892. Synonymic catalogue of the Lepidoptera Heterocera 1: 719. |
| Publication: | Moore F. 1862. On the Asiatic silk-producing moths. |
| Journal: | Transactions of the entomological Society of London |
| Volume: | (3) 1 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pagination: | 315 |
| URL: | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32121269 |