Bombycoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of moths}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Acherontia atropos MHNT.jpg

| image_caption = Death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos)

| display_parents = 5

| taxon = Bombycoidea

| authority = Gravenhorst, 1843{{cite book|last=Gravenhorst|first=J. L. C.|year=1843|title=Vergleichende Zoologie|location=Breslau|publisher=Druck und Verlag von Graß, Barth und Comp|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120240#page/218/mode/1up}}{{cite book|last=Agassiz|first=L.|year=1846|title=Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus|location=Soloduri|publisher=Jent et Gassmann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tL71aMeiZHEC&pg=PA49}}

| diversity = >3,500 species

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = {{center|See text}}

| synonyms =

• Bombyciformia Schrank, 1802{{cite book|last=Schrank|first=F. P.|year=1802|chapter=Spinnerförmige Schmetterlinge. Lepidoptera bombyciformia|title=Fauna Boica. Zweyter Band. Zweyte Abteilung|location=Ingolstadt|publisher=Johann Wilhelm Krüll|pages=149–156|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98205#page/155/mode/1up|language=de}}
• Sphingoidea Gravenhorst, 1843{{r|Grav1843}}

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Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths, including the silk moths, giant silk moths, sphinx moths, saturniids, and relatives. The superfamily Lasiocampoidea is a close relative and was historically sometimes merged in this group. After many years of debate and shifting taxonomies, the most recent classifications treat the superfamily as containing 10 constituent families.Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236