ERIOGYNA OF THE WORLD

Eriogyna is recognized as a junior synonym of Saturnia, based on work of Naumann, 1994.

Listing of Eriogyna

P cameronensis Lemaire, 1979 West Malaysia Highlands: Cameron Highlands
P centralis Naumann & Loeffler, 2005 China, northeastern Myanmar = Burma, northern Thailand
P cidosa Moore, 1865 northeastern India, Sikkam, Nepal
P cognata (Jordan, 1911) southern and eastern China, possibly to South Korea full species status
N luctifera (Jordan, 1911) China: (Sichuan and Shaanxi)
P pinratanai Lampe 1989 northern Thailand
P pyretorum Westood, 1847 Taiwan, northern Vietnam, southern China
N pyretorum fusca Watson, 1915 (“1914”) China with unclear status
P pyretorum pearsoni Watson, 1911 according to Stefan Naumann is a synonym of pyretorum
N pyretorum roseata De Joannis, 1929 northern Vietnam with unclear status; might be pyretorum
N pyretorum tonkinensis Bouvier, 1936 northern Vietnam with unclear status; might be pyretorum or pyretorum roseata

Both Ric Peigler and Stefan Naumann have helped with some of the ids of files linked from this page. Ric writes, "For the Saturnia (=Eriogyna), I think they are all four (images I had submitted to Dr. Peigler) Saturnia cognata, which is a full species and not a subspecies of pyretorum. Both species were figured in color by Jordan (in Seitz 1911, plate 31) and discussed in a paper by Stefan Naumann and Swen Loeffler (2005, Notes on the genus Saturnia Schrank, 1802, with description of a new species. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 26(4): 169-176.) In that paper they point out that Packard's 1914 figures under the name luctifera are actually cognata. I agree with all of the taxonomy of "Eriogyna" given by Naumann and Loeffler in their paper."

In April of 2007 Dr. Naumann sent me a copy of the article he co-authored with Swen Loffler in 2005. The information above reflects the information in that paper. I have also used those notes to update the species/subspecies files.

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