Array ( [0] => Sikkim [1] => West Bengal [2] => Arunachal Pradesh [3] => Assam [4] => Meghalaya [5] => Manipur [6] => Mizoram [7] => Nagaland )

Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea

Family

Saturniidae

Subfamily

Saturniinae

Tribe/Subtribe

Saturniini

Genus

Antheraea  Hübner, [1819] 1816

Type Species

Phalaena mylitta  Drury, 1773

= Carmenta Weymer, 1906: 74 (TS. Antheraea cordifolia Weymer, 1906: 71, by original designation. Carmenta Weymer is a junior homonym of Carmenta Edwards, 1881 (Sesiidae). There is no objective replacement name, but A. cordifolia is congeneric with Phalaena mylitta, the type-species of Antheraea; the latter is thus available for use as a subjective replacement name (Fletcher & Nye 1982).
= Loepantheraea Toxopeus, 1940: 59 (TS. Loepantheraea rosieri Toxopeus, 1940: 59, by original designation)

Subgenus

Antheraea ,

Species/Subspecies

Antheraea  (Antheraea) helferi helferi Moore , [1860] 1858–59

Type Locality

Darjeeling [West Bengal, India]

=Antheraea subcaeca Bouvier, 1936: 123, 133, fig. 18 (TL. Nord-Korintji Tal, S.W. Sumatra)

Remarks

Mainly flies in lowland rainforest, but a single male was recorded at 1618m on Bukit Retak, Brunei (Holloway 1987). Records from Uttarakhand (North West Himalaya) need further investigation.

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

N.E. Himalaya

States/Union Territories

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal

Bio Geographic Zones/Zones

Indian Himalaya, North East

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