Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea
Saturniidae
Saturniinae
Saturniini
Rinaca Walker, 1855
Saturnia zuleika Hope, 1843
= Caligula Moore, 1862: 321 (TS. Saturnia simla Westwood, [1847]: [41], pl. 20, by subsequent designation by Kirby (1892)).
= Calligula; Lucas (1902: 622) (an incorrect subsequent spelling)
= Dictyoploca Jordan, [1911]: 218 (TS. Saturnia simla Westwood, [1847], by subsequent designation by Jordan (1957)). Dictyoploca is a junior objective synonym of Caligula.
Rinaca anna Atkinson , [1866] 1865 (Saturnia)
“Darjiling” [West Bengal, India] (Lectotype designated by Naumann & Nässig 2010a)
Rinaca anna is a South Himalayan species, only found in the rainy southern slopes, from Nepal across Sikkim and northern West Bengal to Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. Records from Myanmar, China, Vietnam and ‘N. Thailand’ (Brechlin 2009) are doubtful (Naumann & Nässig 2010).
Distribution
Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal
Indian Himalaya
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