Summary description from Wikipedia:

Bombycoidea in languages:

Chinese

蠶蛾總科

English

Hawk, Sphinx, Silk, Emperor, and Allied Moths

Finnish

kehrääjämäiset

Japanese

カイコガ上科

Korean

누에나방상과

Lithuanian

Didieji Verpikai

Modern Greek

Βομβυκοειδή

Russian

Шелкопрядовые

Thai

ผีเสื้อหนอนไหม ผีเสื้อเหยี่ยว ฯลฯ

Ukrainian

Шовкопрядові

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Parent Taxon

• N/A

Sibling Taxa

• Acanthopteroctetoidea
• Adeloidea
• Aenigmatineidae
• Agathiphagoidea
• Alucitoidea
• Andesianoidea
• Bombycoidea
• Calliduloidea
• Choreutoidea
• Copromorphoidea
• Cossoidea
• Douglasioidea
• Drepanoidea
• Epermenioidea
• Eriocranioidea
• Galacticoidea
• Gelechioidea
• Geometroidea
• Gracillarioidea
• Hepialoidea
• Heterobathmioidea
• Hyblaeoidea
• Immoidea
• Lasiocampoidea
• Lophocoronoidea
• Micropterigoidea
• Millieriidae
• Mimallonoidea
• Mnesarchaeoidea
• Neopseustoidea
• Nepticuloidea
• Noctuoidea
• Palaephatoidea
• Papilionoidea
• Pterophoroidea
• Pyraloidea
• Schreckensteinioidea
• Simaethistoidea
• Thyridoidea
• Tineoidea
• Tischerioidea
• Tortricoidea
• Urodoidea
• Whalleyanoidea
• Yponomeutoidea
• Zygaenoidea

Child Taxa

• Anthelidae
• Apatelodidae
• Bombycidae
• Brahmaeidae
• Carthaeidae
• Endromidae
• Eupterotidae
• Phiditiidae
• Saturniidae
• Sphingidae

Top Observation Places

• Austin
• Hong Kong
• Kowloon
• Victoria
• Sha Tin
• Kwai Chung
• Tai Po
• Fanling
• Ma On Shan