Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea
Saturniidae
Saturniinae
Saturniini
Actias Leach in Leech & Nodder, 1815
Phalaena luna Linnaeus, 1758
= Astias; Leach (1815: 26) (an incorrect (of multiple) original spelling of Actias)
= Echidna Hübner, [1807] 1806: pl. [173] (TS. Echidna selene Hübner, [1807] 1806: pl. [173], by monotypy. Echidna Hübner is a junior homonym of Echidna Forster, 1788 (Pisces). There is no objective replacement name, but E. selene is conspecific with Plectropteron dianae Hutton, 1846, the type-species of Plectropteron Hutton, 1846; the latter is thus available for use as a subjective replacement name) (Fletcher & Nye 1982).
= Tropaea Hübner, [1819] 1816: 152 (TS. Phalaena luna Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Grote (1895). Tropaea is a junior objective synonym of Actias)
= Meceura Billberg, 1820: 83 (TS. Phalaena luna Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy. Meceura is a junior objective synonym of Actias)
= Artemis Kirby & Spence, 1826: 248 (TS. Phalaena luna Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy. Artemis is a junior objective synonym of Actias)
= Plectropteron Hutton, 1846: 60 (TS. Plectropteron dianae Hutton, 1846: 60, by monotypy)
= Euandrea Watson, 1913: 42 (TS. Tropaea dubernardi Oberthür, 1897: 130, 174, by original designation)
= Sonthonnaxia Watson, 1913: 42 (TS. Actias maenas Doubleday, 1847: 95, by original designation)
= Proactias Arora & Gupta, 1979: 8 (Key), 15 (TS. Tropaea sinensis Walker, 1855: 1264, by original designation)
Actias maenas maenas Doubleday, 1847
Silhet [Sylhet, Bangladesh]
=Saturnia leto Doubleday, 1848: 1 (TL. Java)
Actias maenas is frequent and mainly flies in lowland forest (Holloway 1987).
Distribution
Darjeeling
Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal
Indian Himalaya, North East