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Attacus

genus of insects
Taxon taxon Q1757746
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Summary

Attacus is a taxon[1]. Attacus ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (263 views/month, #1,601 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Saturniidae[4]
  • Taxon name: Attacus[5]
  • Commons category: Attacus[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Attacus[7]

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Identifiers

Attacus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 125062[8]. Attacus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 63966[9]. Attacus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 48492[10]. Attacus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5124670[11].

Why It Matters

Attacus has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Attacus is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · YukiKoKo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ceb', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'it', 'la', 'nl', 'no', 'pl', 'pt',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||en-ca, en-gb */ [[MediaWiki talk:Gadget-autoEdit.js|autoEdit]] Update Labels"
  2. 6w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lepindex id → 68380, 68381
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Lepindex id: 68381, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/270217|batch #270217]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → taxon
    Parent taxon → Saturniidae
    Topic's main category → Category:Attacus
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007530011005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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