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Taxon: Genus Bombyx Linnaeus, 1758 (moth)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
Original name & spelling Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 495.
Subsequent rank

Gender

Masculine Ref: ICZN, 1957. Opinion 450: 255.

Attributes

Name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.6] Ref: ICZN, 1957. Opinion 450: Ruling (2)(a) (p. 255: "Name No. 1056"). [new]

Types

Type ofBombyciformes (Series)
Type ofBombycinae (Subfamily) Latreille, 1802
Type ofBombycoidea (Superfamily) Latreille, 1802
Type, by designation under the plenary power, ofBombycidae (Family) Latreille, 1802 Ref: ICZN, 1957: Ruling (1)(b)(1)(3) (p. 254; p. 258). [new]
Type, by designation under the plenary powerBombyx mori (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Ref: ICZN, 1957: Ruling (1)(b)(1)(2) (p. 254: "genus"; p. 255). [implicit]
Type, by designation under the plenary powerPhalaena mori Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: ICZN, 1957: Ruling (1)(b)(1)(2) (p. 254: "genus"; p. 255). [new]

Variants

BasionymBombyx (Subgenus) Linnaeus, 1758
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