Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea
Family
Saturniidae
Subfamily
Bunaeinae
Tribe/Subtribe
Urotini
Genus
Sinobirma Bryk, 1944
Type Species
Opodiphthera malaisei Bryk, 1944
Species/Subspecies
Sinobirma occidentalis Naumann & Smetacek, 2023
Type Locality
Pange valley, Arunachal Pradesh [India]
Remarks
Liu (2024) noted that the diagnostic characters of S. occidentalis fall within the normal variation of S. bouyeri, suggesting that S. occidentalis is a subjective junior synonym of S. bouyeri. However, this treatment was not formally established because the primary types were not examined.
Distribution
States/Union Territories
Arunachal Pradesh
Bio Geographic Zones/Zones
Indian Himalaya
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