Bombyx
| Bombyx | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Bombycidae |
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Bombyx Linnaeus, 1758[1] |
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Bombyx is the genus of true silkmoths or mulberry silkmoths of the family Bombycidae. For a few thousand years, people only recognised two species, but then several other less important species were discovered, and the genus contains two tested hybrid species, a semi-natural cross between a female Bombyx mori and a male Bombyx mandarina, and another hybrid the other way around from the first.
The caterpillars feed on Moraceae, especially on mulberries (Morus). Domesticated silkworms may be fed artificial mulberry chow.
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