CALIGULA OF THE WORLD

Caligula, as of 2005, is regarded as a subgenus of or grouped with Saturnia. Regarding a question I had about a possible subspecies of boisduvalii or jonasi, Stefan Naumann writes, "Currently all those taxa described under Caligula etc. are combined under Saturnia, and the oldest name available for the mainland taxon is boisduvalii Eversmann, 1846. As long as this group is not completely revised with type material I fear to determine anything safely, but as far as I see I believe fallax Jordan, 1913 to be a synonym of boisduvalii, and jonasi Butler, 1877 a different taxon from Japan. For me the specimen figured looks like typical boisduvalii although somewhat intensively orange coloured."

Caligula thibeta fifth instar on privet, courtesy of Alan Marson.

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TAXONOMY: Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 Family: Saturniidae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834 Subfamily: Saturniinae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834 Tribe: Saturniini, Boisduval, 1837 Genus: Caligula, Moore, 1862

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CALIGULA MOORE, 1862

Listing of Caligula

P anna (Moore, 1865) China, Nepal and Himalaya
P bieti Oberthur, 1886 China
P boisduvalii (Eversmann, 1846) Ussury, Russia, Japan
P boisduvalii fallax (Jordan, 1911) Japan, China, probably nominate boisduvalii in China; and jonasi in Japan
P cachara Moore, 1872 China, Myanmar (KW), Nepal and Thailand
P chinghaina Chu et Wang China: Qinghai
P grotei Morre, 1859 Nepal Himalaya
P japonica Moore, 1872, China, Japan
P japonica arisana (Shiraki, 1913) Taiwan
P japonica ryukyuensis (Inoue, 1984) Japan
P jonasii Butler, 1877 Japan
P jonasii fallax Jordan, 1911 Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Russian Far East, China probably nominate boisduvalii in China; and nominate jonasii in Japan
P jonasii fukudai Sonan, 1937 Taiwan
P lindia Moore, 1865 China, Nepal, Himalaya
N lindia bonita Jordan China: Xizang (Tibet)
P simla (Westwood, 1847) India, Pakistan, China, Myanmar, Thailand; probably Nepal and Bhutan
P sinjaevi Brechlin, 2004 China; Saturnia (Rinaca)
P thibeta (Westwood, 1853) northwest India; probably as subspecies into Nepal, Malaysia, southern China, Thailand, etc.
P thibeta arctica(Yang, 1978) or (Y-Tang, 1978) China
P thibeta extensa (Butler, 1881) northeast India
P thibeta okurai Okano, 1960 Taiwan
P tsinlingshanis (Mell 1939) Tsinling Mts, Shaanxi Province, China
P zuleika Hope, 1843 China, India, Nepal, Myanmar
P zuleika lesoudieri Le Moult, 1933 Thailand, Laos, Vietnam

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