Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea
Saturniidae
Saturniinae
Saturniini
Antheraea Hübner, [1819] 1816
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)
Antheraeopsis Wood-Mason, 1886
Saturnia assama Westwood, 1848
Antheraea (Antheraeopsis ) assamensis Helfer, 1837 (Saturnia)
Assam [India]
= Saturnia assama Westwood, 1848: 41 (TL. Assam)
= Antheraea mezankooria Moore, 1862: 318 (TL. Brit. Birma, Sibsagar (Assam))
= Antheraea brunnea subvelata Bouvier, 1930: 92
= Antheraea biedermanni Niepelt, 1932: 90 (TL. Naga Hills)
The species has been collected infrequently from lowland forests (Holloway 1987). Records from Gujarat and Pondicherry (Das et al. 2000) need further confirmation.
Distribution
Widespread in sub-Himalayan area
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
Indian Himalaya, North East
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