Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea
Saturniidae
Saturniinae
Saturniini
Rinaca Walker, 1855
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.
Rinaca zuleika Hope, 1843 (Saturnia)
“Silhet” [= error in locality, correct: India, Himalaya, probably in West Bengal?]. (‘Silhet’ is evidently erroneous. Based on the original illustration in the original description and possible syntype material, the taxon was apparently described from Himalayan material (probably from the Darjiling
=Rinaca zuleika orites Jordan, 1911: 131 (TL. Sikkim)
Rinaca zuleika is an exclusively Himalayan species, therefore, records of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh (Chandra et al. 2019; Joshi et al. 2021) are doubtful. The populations from all extra-Himalayan localities belong to a different species, Rinaca lesoudieri (Naumann & Nässig 2010). Records from Bangladesh, Myanmar, northern Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, Sri Lanka (Racheli 2008; Irungbam & Irungbam 2019; Cotes & Swinhoe 1887) need further confirmation.
Distribution
Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
Indian Himalaya
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