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Definition of Eacles
1. Noun. Imperial moths.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Saturniidae, Saturniidae
Member holonyms: Eacles Imperialis, Imperial Moth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eacles
Literary usage of Eacles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North America: Including Their by Alpheus Spring Packard, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1905)
"The hind wings are most normal or conventional in shape in Eacles and ...
This liberation or detachment of vein IV., is most marked in Eacles, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1865)
"The imago of Eacles, however, is much lesa Sphinx-like than that of ... have taken
the larva of Eacles imperialis on the " gum," Liquidambar styra- ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1893)
"The foregoing description has been drawn up from four well-preserved alcoholic
specimens. This larva differs generically from Eacles in having ..."
4. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1867)
"... and Eacles, are erected by Hiibner in the " Verzeichniss ; " the types of the
genera being • We take for this Tribe a name derived from Dr. Harris's ..."
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