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

Antheraeopsis Wood-Mason, 1886

Type Species

Saturnia assama Westwood, 1848

Species/Subspecies

Antheraea (Antheraeopsis ) castanea Jordan, 1910

Type Locality

Khasia Hills [Meghalaya, India] (Lectotype designated by Naumann et al. 2008)

=Antheraea (Antheraeopsis) mezops Bryk, 1944a: 7 (TL. Burma)

Distribution

Specific Records

North East India

States/Union Territories

Meghalaya

Bio Geographic Zones/Zones

North East

Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea

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