Species Profile
Bombyx mori
Mulberry silkworm
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Terrestrial insect domesticated for silk production.
Economically important in sericulture.
Size & Structure
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Medium sized moth
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Soft white body
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Wings covered with scales
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Larva is caterpillar with silk glands
Bombyx mori — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate (haemocoel)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Ventral nerve cord with ganglia
- Excretory organ
- Malpighian tubules
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic (stenohaline)
- Circulatory type
- Open
- Development type
- Indirect (complete metamorphosis)
- Respiratory type
- Tracheal
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Primary consumer
Part of food chain
Pollination (adult stage)
Economic Importance
Source of mulberry silk
Used in sericulture
Employment generation
Scientific research organism