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Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea

Family

Saturniidae

Subfamily

Saturniinae

Tribe/Subtribe

Saturniini

Genus

Rinaca Walker, 1855

Type Species

Saturnia zuleika Hope, 1843

= Caligula Moore, 1862: 321 (TS. Saturnia simla Westwood, [1847]: [41], pl. 20, by subsequent designation by Kirby (1892)).
= Calligula; Lucas (1902: 622) (an incorrect subsequent spelling)
= Dictyoploca Jordan, [1911]: 218 (TS. Saturnia simla Westwood, [1847], by subsequent designation by Jordan (1957)). Dictyoploca is a junior objective synonym of Caligula.

Species/Subspecies

Rinaca thibeta Westwood, 1853 [1854] (Saturnia)

Type Locality

Tibet, Kimaon, N.W. Himalaya

Remarks

Rinaca thibeta is a resident of Northwestern Himalaya and thus, records from Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur (Cotes & Swinhoe 1887; Shah et al. 2018; Chandra et al. 2019; Joshi et al. 2021), China, Bhutan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Taiwan are doubtful.

Ladakh Jammu & Kashmir Uttarakhand Sikkim Punjab Bihar WestBengal Odisha Maharashtra Karnataka Goa Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu Kerala Arunachal Pradesh Assam Meghalaya Tripura Manipur Mizoram Rajasthan Gujarat Jharkhand Chhattisgarh Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Nagaland Haryana Delhi Himachal Pradesh Telengana Andaman & Nikobar Island Lakshadweep

Distribution

Specific Records

Northwestern Himalaya (North West India)

Bio Geographic Zones/Zones

Indian Himalaya