Usage examples (4)

• A moth in the family Bombycidae, it is very important economically as the producer of silk.
• A. Silk is produced in Thailand's most favorable climate by two types of silkworms - the cultured Bombycidae and wild Saturniidae.
• Erycinidae, three Castnias (a genus of day-flying moths), and fourteen species of diurnal Bombycidae, all imitating some species of Heliconidae which inhabited the same...
• Bombycidae; and in beetles, amongst many others, the rare Xestia nitida (Bates) and Hexoplon albipenne (Bates) were first described from these evening captures.)