Array ( [0] => Himachal Pradesh [1] => Uttarakhand [2] => Sikkim [3] => West Bengal [4] => Arunachal Pradesh [5] => Assam [6] => Meghalaya [7] => Mizoram [8] => Manipur [9] => Nagaland [10] => Tripura [11] => Bihar [12] => Uttar Pradesh [13] => Odisha [14] => Maharashtra [15] => Gujarat [16] => Andhra Pradesh [17] => Goa [18] => Tamil Nadu [19] => Kerala )

Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea

Family

Saturniidae

Subfamily

Saturniinae

Tribe/Subtribe

Attacini

Genus

Samia  Hübner, [1819] 1816

Type Species

Phalaena cynthia  Drury, 1773

= Philosamia Grote, 1874: 258 (TS. Phalaena cynthia Drury, 1773: 10, by original designation. Philosamia is a junior objective synonym of Samia)
= Desgodinsia Oberthür, 1914: 56 (TS. Desgodinsia watsoni Oberthür, 1914: 56, by monotypy. Desgodinsia Oberthür is a junior homonym of Desgodinsia Senna, 1894: 381 (Coleoptera). There is no objective replacement name, but D. watsoni is congeneric with Phalaena cynthia, the type-species of Samia Hübner and the latter is thus available for use as a subjective replacement name (Fletcher & Nye 1982).
= Archaeosamia Brechlin, 2007: 56–61.

Species/Subspecies

Samia  ricini Anonymous,

Type Locality

not known

= Phalaena penelope Buchanan, 1833: 214 (TL. Chittagong, [Bangladesh]) (Junior primary homonym of Phalaena attacus penelope Cramer, [1776] 1775)
= Attacus arrindia Milne-Edwards, 1854: 13 (TL. N.O. Bengalen)
= Saturnia depuiseti Boisduval, 1854: 755 (TL. Inde Anglaise, Becker; Silhet)
= Attacus lunula Walker, 1855: 1221 (TL. Silhet. Assam. Sikkim. Chinn-hills. S.W. China)
= Attacus guerini Moore, [1860] 1858–59: 409 (TL. N.O. Bengalen)
= Attacus obscurus Butler, 1879: 5 (TL. Assam)
= Saturnia iole Westwood, 1881: 144 (TL. Assam)
= Phylosamia cynthia lunuloides Rebel, 1924: 110 (TL. Assam)
= Phylosamia cynthia var fuscofasciatus Bouvier, 1927: 931 (TL. Java)

Remarks

1) The distribution of S. ricini is mainly dependent on the conditions of captive cultures and where it is reared. In general, the moths prefer warm and humid climate, a reason for not spreading ericulture to the central (parts of Deccan Peninsula) India and high altitudes of Himalaya. The species is mainly distributed in East Gangetic plain including parts of West Bengal, Assam, Bangladesh and adjacent areas (Peigler & Naumann 2003). 2) The authorship of Samia ricini remained debatable for centuries. Various authors have attributed the name ricini to Jones, Anderson, Donovan, or Boisduval. However, Peigler & Naumann (2003) noted that no original material exists based on which the ricini was described and no neotype has been designated, consequently, the type locality remains undeterminable. Following Articles 14 and 50.1 of the ICZN (1999), the authors cited the authorship as ‘Anonymous’. The same is followed in this catalogue.

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

States/Union Territories

Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Bio Geographic Zones/Zones

Deccan Peninsula, Gangetic Plain, Indian Himalaya, North East, Semi Arid, Western Ghats

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