ARCHAEOATTACUS OF THE WORLD
Updated October 11, 2005
Updated as per Article: "Evidence for the existence of three species in the genus Archaeoattacus" (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae); Nässig WA, Naumann S, Rougerie R; The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 12/2010; 43(43):37-47; April 1, 2013
Updated as per personal communication with Derek Bridgehouse (Archaeoattacus vietnamensis, southern Vietnam); May 25, 2016
Updated as per "Additional note on the genus Archaeoattacus Watson [in Packard], 1914: Description of a fourth species (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Saturniinae, Attacini)" in Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N. F. 37 (1): 5–11 (2016) by Stefan Naumann, Rodolphe Rougerie and Wolfgang A. Nässig; May 27, 2016

ARCHAEOATTACUS OF THE WORLD

Archaeoattacus staudingeri male, Frasers Hill, Malaysia,
courtesy/copyright Preston Murphy.

ARCHAEOATTACUS J. H. Watson, 1914

TAXONOMY:

Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802
Family: Saturniidae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Saturniinae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Tribe: Attacini, Blanchard, 1840
Genus: Archaeoattacus, J.H. Watson, 1914

Archaeoattus edwardsii final instar, Nepal,
courtesy/copyright Anatolij Kulak.

Listing of Archaeoattacus

Archaeoattacus edwardsii male

Archaeoattacus edwardsii female

Archaeoattacus malayanus male

Archaeoattacus malayanus female

Archaeoattacus staudingeri male

Archaeoattacus staudingeri female

Archaeoattacus vietnamensis male; southern Vietnam

Archaeoattacus vietnamensis female; on home computer only

P edwardsii (White, 1859) Himalayan Region: northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, China (Himalayan)
P malayanus (Kurosawa & Kishida, 1984) non Himalayan China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, northern Vietnam, southern Laos, Malaysia and surrounding countries; elevated to full species status by Nässig WA, Naumann S, Rougerie R, 2010
P staudingeri (Rothschild, 1895) Sundaland: Java, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Malaysia
N vietnamensis Stefan Naumann, Rodolphe Rougerie and Wolfgang A. Nässig, 2016, southern Vietnam

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On my home computer only: Archaeoattacus species summaries.