''Attacus erebus'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of family

Saturniidae Saturniidae, commonly known as saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. The family contains some of the largest species of moths in the world. Notable members include the emperor moths, royal moths, and gi ...

. It is native to

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

(

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

). This variety is bred locally and shipped worldwide to butterfly farms. Adult males are highly variable. The life cycle of ''erebus'' is very similar to that of most other ''

Attacus ''Attacus'' is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of ''Systema Naturae''.

'' species.

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"Attacus erebus"
Insect Life Forms Saturniidae Moths described in 1904 Moths of Indonesia {{Saturniidae-stub