1. Are Stilpontia salicis and Leucoma salicis synonymous? Some sources include Stilpontia salicis from the family Lymantriidae and Leucoma salicis from the family Erebidae. what is your opinion? 2. Are synonyms: Cerura vinula L. and Dicranura vinula L. synonyms?
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Salehi
"Leucoma salicis, the white satin moth or satin moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Europe including the British Isles but not the far north".
''Stilpontia salicis ] , ill ll ,- a,,;pc11 (Populus tremuloides:'lri ch" . ) (J ,I~.J. ) Stilpontia salicis (L.), is a close relative of the gipsy and browntail moths, and like these is also common in Europe. The satin moth is generally distributed over Europe and various parts of Asia. In 1920
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c94e/b3348ce1afd4a2a487542d202194f340512b.pdf
I do not know but based on what can be read they seems not to be the same moth.
It may be so that dicerura is changed to cerura.
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