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BackgroundBombycoidea   is an ecologically diverse and speciose superfamily of   Lepidoptera  . The superfamily includes many model organisms, but the taxonomy and classification of the superfamily has remained largely in disarray. Here we present a global checklist of   Bombycoidea  . Following  Zwick (2008)  and  Zwick et al. (2011) , ten families are recognized:   Anthelidae  ,   Apatelodidae  ,   Bombycidae  ,   Brahmaeidae  ,   Carthaeidae  ,   Endromidae  ,   Eupterotidae  ,   Phiditiidae  ,   Saturniidae   and   Sphingidae  . The former families   Lemoniidae   and   Mirinidae   are included within   Brahmaeidae   and   Endromidae   respectively. The former bombycid subfamilies  Oberthueriinae  and  Prismostictinae  are also treated as synonyms of   Endromidae  , and the former bombycine subfamilies   Apatelodinae   and  Phitditiinae  are treated as families.New informationThis checklist represents the first effort to synthesize the current taxonomic treatment of the entire superfamily. It includes 12,159 names and references to their authors, and it accounts for the recent burst in species and subspecies descriptions within family   Saturniidae   (ca. 1,500 within the past 10 years) and to a lesser extent in   Sphingidae   (ca. 250 species over the same period). The changes to the higher classification of   Saturniidae   proposed by  Nässig et al. (2015)  are rejected as premature and unnecessary. The new tribes, subtribes and genera described by  Cooper (2002)  are here treated as junior synonyms. We also present a new higher classification of   Sphingidae  , based on  Kawahara et al. (2009) ,  Barber and Kawahara (2013)  and a more recent phylogenomic study by  Breinholt et al. (2017) , as well as a reviewed genus and species level classification, as documented by  Kitching (2018) .

A global checklist of the Bombycoidea ( Insecta : Lepidoptera )