SALASSA OF THE WORLD
Salassa kitchingi or more likely Salassa lola male, Nepal,
courtesy of Eric van Schayck,
id by Bill Oehlke.
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Updated as per Thomas Witt's Entomofauna
(belinda, belinda aeos, katschinika) 2007, Mono 1 62 pp., February 2007 Updated as per personal communication with Luigi Racheli (excellens and katschinika, northern Myanmar), November, 2008 Updated as per Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F. 29 (1/2): 47-52 (2008), (lemaii from Thailand, December flight), December 9, 2008 Updated as per personal communication with Ron Brachlin (Salassa bhutanensis, Brechlin, 2009; Salassa lemaii chiangmaiensis, Brechlin & Meister, 2009); July 5, 2009 Updated as per personal communication with Vadim Zolotuhin (belinda and belinda eos; August 2009 Updated as per personal communication with Stefan Naumann (The European Entomologist, Vol. 2, No. 3{4}, pp 93-122); March 13, 2010 Updated as per Entomo Satsphingia Jahrgang 3 Heft 3 28.6.2010; February 6, 2012 |
P indicates an image is available.
These moths fly in India and in southeast Asia to southern China.
Salassa thespis, fifth instar,
North-West Yunnan, Gongshan, Kongmu, 4500m
VI-2005, leg Yin et al, courtesy of
Franz and Julian Renner.
Salassa thespis, fifth instar,
North-West Yunnan, Gongshan, Kongmu, 4500m
VI-2005, leg Yin et al, courtesy of
Franz and Julian Renner.
I do not know if some of the new names indicate a replacement name in the geographic type location, or if the new species and the "known" species are sympatric. It will probably be some time before all that gets sorted.
In order to help me with identifications, I have placed the species into different groups, largely based on the characters of the male forewing and hindwing cell markings. Such grouping is my own and does not represent any "scientific" association. Females are usually larger than males and cell markings are larger than corresponding male markings.
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P albocirculata Stefan Naumann, Swen Loffler & Steve Kohll, 2010,
South Vietnam
P arianae Brechlin & Kitching 2010 China: Shaanxi; Sichuan??
P belinda Witt & Pugaev, 2007 eastern Nepal; (Bhutan (RB))
P belinda aeos Witt & Pugaev, 2007 western Nepal
P bhutanensis Brechlin, 2009 Bhutan
S. bhutanensis is now (2010, Naumann et al) a junior synonym of tibaliva Chu et Wang, 1993
China: Xizang; now, 2010, recognized as distinct species,
Brechlin & Meister, 2010
P cottoni Stefan Naumann, Swen Loffler & Steve Kohll, 2010, Myanmar
P excellens Bryk, 1944 northern Myanmar: Kachin State
P extremorientalis
Stefan Naumann, Swen Loffler & Steve Kohll, 2010,
China
P fansipana Brechlin, 1997 Vietnam
P hauensteini Stefan Naumann, Swen Loffler & Steve Kohll, 2010, Bhutan
P htayaungi Stefan Naumann, Swen Loffler & Steve Kohll, 2010, Myanmar
P inversa Stefan Naumann, Swen Loffler & Steve Kohll, 2010, Myanmar
P iris Jordan, 1910 northeastern India: Nagaland (Assam); southern China: Yunnan; possibly Bhutan
P katschinika Bryk, 1944 northern Myanmar: Kachin State
P kitchingi Brechlin 2010 Nepal
P lemaii Le Moult, 1933 Vietnam, Thailand
P lemaii chiangmaiensis Brechlin & Meister, 2009 northern Thailand
P lola (Westwood, 1847) Himalayas, India, Nepal, China: Xizang; (Bhutan (RB))
P megastica Swinhoe, 1894 Vietnam
P meisteri Brechlin 2010 Bhutan
P mesosa Jordan, 1910 Burma; British India; China: Yunnan; (Bhutan (RB))
P olivacea Oberthur, 1890 China: Xizang, Sichuan, Yunnan
P parakatschinica Brechlin, 2009, northern Myanmar
P pararoyi Brechlin, 2009, eastern Bhutan
P paratonkiniana Brechlin, 2009, northern Vietnam
P royi Elwes, 1887
Nepal, Bhutan
P shuyiae Zhang, W., & Kohll, S. (2008) Hainan, China: Hainan
P thespis (Leech, 1890) Thailand, Laos, China: S. Yunnan, Xizang, Sichuan
P tibaliva Chu et Wang, 1993 China: Xizang; Bhutan
P tonkiniana Le Moult, 1933 Vietnam
P viridis Stefan Naumann, Swen Loffler & Steve Kohll, 2010, China
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On my home computer only: original description of Salassa lemaii chiangmaiensis (in German) as published in Entomo-Satsphingia 2 (1): 33 – 35 (März 2009)
On my home computer only: notes on Saturniidae of Bhutan by Ronald Brechlin (in English) as published in Entomo-Satsphingia 2 (1): 47 – 55 (March 2009)
The actual hardcopy editions of Entomo-Satsphingia may be purchased via the link to the left.
The European Entomologist, Vol. 2, No. 3{4}, pp 93-122, on my home computer only.
