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Actias Leach, 1815

Actias Leach, 1815; in Leach & Nodder, Zool. Miscell. 2: 25, TS: Phalaena luna Linnaeus
Echidna Hübner, [1807]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pl. [173] (preocc. Echidna Forster, 1788 (Pisces)), TS: Echidna selene Hübner

= ; [NACL, 109]

Tropaea Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (10): 152, TS: Phalaena luna Linnaeus

= ; [NACL, 109]

Meceura Billberg, 1820; Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb.: 83, TS: Phalaena luna Linnaeus
Artemis Kirby & Spence, 1828; Introd. Ent. (Edn 5) 3: 248, TS: Phalaena luna Linnaeus
Plectropteron Hutton, 1846; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 17: 60 (repl. Echidna Hübner, [1807]), TS: Plectropteron dianae Hutton
Argema Wallengren, 1858; Öfvers. K.VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockh., 15: 140, TS: Saturnia mimosae Boisduval
Angas Wallengren, 1865; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 5 (4): 24, TS: Saturnia mimosae Boisduval
Sonthonnaxia Watson, 1913; Rep. Trans. Machr ent. Soc. 1912: 42, TS: Actias maenas Doubleday
Proactias Arora & Gupta, 1979; Mem. zool. Surv. India 16(1): 8 (key), 15, TS: Tropaea sinensis Walker
Actias [Tony Pittaway]
Astias ; Leach, 1815, in Leach & Nodder, Zool. Miscell. 2: 26 (missp.)
Actias ; Godman & Salvin, 1886, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 188
Actias (Saturniini) ; [NACL, 109]; [MABL]

Actias luna (Linnaeus, 1758)

ENA, Mexico, Guatemala. See [About maps] Luna Moth
Phalaena luna Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 496, TL: North America
Tropaea dictynna Walker, 1855; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 6: 1264

= ; [NACL, #7758]

Actias azteca Packard, 1869; Guide to the study of insects (9th edn.): 298
Actias rossii Ross, 1872

= ; [NACL, #7758]

bolli (Wagner, 1876)

= ; [NACL, #7758]

Actias maasseni Kirby, 1892

= ; [NACL, #7758]

rubromarginata (Davis, 1912)

= ; [NACL, #7758]

rubrosuffusa (Cockerell, 1914)

= ; [NACL, #7758]

mariae (Benjamin, 1922)

= ; [NACL, #7758]

lacrimens (Niepelt, 1923)

= ; [NACL, #7758]

Actias luna [BAMONA]
Actias luna [GALEPS]
Actias luna [Bill Oehlke]
Actias azteca ; Godman & Salvin, 1886, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 188
Actias dictynna ; Godman & Salvin, 1886, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 189
Actias luna ; Godman & Salvin, 1886, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 188; [NACL, #7758]; [SMNA: 182, pl. 24, f. 1, 4]

1000x758 (~72Kb) larva USA, ex. o. (commercial source), Photo 02.07.1979 © Pertti Pakkanen

640x480 (~59Kb) USA, Kansas City, Mo, e.o, Photo May 1996 © Dan Chaffee

Larva on Betula papyrifera, Carya, Juglans, Rhus, Diospyros virginiana, Liquidambar styraciflua [SMNA]

Actias truncatipennis (Sonthonnax, 1899)

Mexico, ...?. See [About maps] Actias truncatipennis ; [MABL]

Actias selene (Hübner, [1807])

Afghanistan - India - China - Korea - Sundaland. See [About maps] Echidna selene Hübner, [1807]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : [3], : pl. [172] (1810), : [173] (1807), : [174] (1813) (missid. as luna), TL: India
Plectropteron dianae Hutton, 1846; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 17: 60, TL: India
Actias selene seitzi Kalis, 1934; Ent. Rundschau, 51: 210
Actias selene miae Toxopeus, 1944; Treubia (hors serie): 146
Actias selene vandenberghi Roepke, 1956; Tijdschr. Ent. 99: 23
Actias selene [SVF]
Actias selene Hübner; Allen, 1981, 112; Lampe, 1985, 9
Actias selene ; [MOB3, 96]

900x673 (~63Kb) larva India, ex. o. (commercial source), Photo 1980 © Pertti Pakkanen

1000x761 (~98Kb) larva India, ex. o. (commercial source), Photo 20.07.1980 © Pertti Pakkanen

1000x807 (~78Kb) India, ex. o. (commercial source), Photo 10.08.1980 © Pertti Pakkanen

Larva on Lannea, Mangifera, Terminalia, Coriaria, Corylus, Andromeda, Quercus, Juglans, Lawsonia, Hibiscus, Azadirachta, Cedrela, Moringa, Ligustrum, Rhamnus, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Zanthoxylum, Salix [MOB3]

Actias maenas Doubleday, 1847

Himalaya - SE.Asia - Sundaland, Sumba, Flores, Sulawesi, Amboina. See [About maps] Actias maenas Doubleday, 1847; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 19 (124) : 95, pl. 7, f. 1, TL: Bangladesh, Sylhet
Actias ignescens Moore, 1877; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1877: 602, TL: S.Andamans
Sonthonnaxia recta Bouvier, 1928; Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 2: 138, TL: Sumatra
Sonthonnaxia saja van Eecke, 1913; Notes Leyden Mus., 35: 134, TL: Sumatra/Java
Saturnia leto Doubleday, 1848; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond., 5: 1, TL: Java
Actias maenas groenendaeli Roepke, 1954; Tijdschr. Ent., 97: 257, TL: Flores
Argema isis Sonthonnax, 1899; Essai classif. Lep. prod. Soie., 2: 15, TL: Sulawesi
Argema latona Rothschild, 1901; Novit. zool., 8: 404, TL: Sulawesi
Sonthonnaxia cotei Testout, 1944; Bull. Soc. Linn. Lyon., 13: 147, TL: Sulawesi
Tropaea rosenbergii Kaup, 1896; Tropae Fam. Saturn, Darmstadt & Leipzig: Zernin, TL: Amboina
Argema rieli Testout, 1942; Bull. Soc. Linn. Lyon., 11: 89, TL: Amboiina
Agrema maenas ; Allen, 1981, 113; Barlow, 1982, 48
Actias maenas ; Nassig & Peigler, 114; Lampe, 1985, 8; [MOB3, 97]

Larva on Averrhoa, Schima, Adinandra, Turpina, Canarium [MOB3]

Actias artemis Bremer, 1861

Korea, China, Japan, India, Malaysia archipelago. See [About maps] Actias artemis [SZMN]
Actias artemis ; [Vladimir V. Izerskyy: 52, pl. 7 , f. 59-60]

579x555 (~28Kb) female pl. 7, f. 59, Photo 1999 © Vladimir V. Izerskyy

579x555 (~26Kb) pl. 7, f. 61 (horizontal gynandromorph), Photo 1999 © Vladimir V. Izerskyy

579x555 (~24Kb) male pl. 7, f. 60, Photo 1999 © Vladimir V. Izerskyy

Larva on Salix, Betula, Juglans, less Qercus [Vladimir V. Izerskyy]

Actias ningpoana Fielder, 1862

S.Primoria, China, Japan, India, Nepal, Ceylon. See [About maps] Actias ningpoana ; [Vladimir V. Izerskyy: 51, pl. 7, f. 58]

553x556 (~20Kb) pl. 7, f. 58, Photo 1999 © Vladimir V. Izerskyy

Larva on Quercus mangoliana, Salix, Juglans mandgurica [Vladimir V. Izerskyy]

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BAMONA]

Paul Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray Stanford, Michael Pogue; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node

[BCA]

electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA

[Bill Oehlke]

Saturniidae; e-mail: Bill Oehlke; http://www3.pei.sympatico.ca/oehlkew

[Dan Chaffee]

6903 NW Cross Rd; Kansas City, Mo. 64152; USA; e-mail: Dan Chaffee

[GALEPS]

Moths and Butterflies of Georgia and the Southeastern United States; James K. Adams; Dept. of Natural Science, Dalton State College, Dalton, GA ; http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps/index.htm

[HBN]

Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2

[MABL]

Manuel A. Balcázar Lara; Palomillas de México

[MOB3]

Holloway, J. D, 1987; The Moths of Borneo, Part 3; Superfamily Bombycoidea: families Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae; (1998 reprint)

[NACL]

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico

[Pertti Pakkanen]

e-mail: Pertti Pakkanen; Butterfly and moth observations from Finland

[SMNA]

Tuskes, Paul M., Tuttle, James P., Collins, Michael M.; The wild silk moths of North America

[SVF]

Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)

[SZMN]

Lepidoptera; Siberian Zoological Museum

[Tony Pittaway]

WWW pages; Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic; Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic; Sphingidae of China (and adjacent regions)

[Vladimir V. Izerskyy]

Vladimir V. Izerskyy; Bombicoidae lepidoptera and Notodontidae of Siberia and Far East; Kiev, 1999

Some related literature:

Boisduval, 1847

Catalogue des Lépidoptères recuellis par M. Delegorgue, 1833-1844 in Delegorgue, Voyage Afr. australe, 2: 585-614

Doubleday, 1847

Description of a new species of the genus Actias of Hübner, from Northern India Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 19 (124) : 95-96, pl. 7

Godman & Salvin, 1886

Biologia Centrali-Americana; or Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna of Mexico and Central America. Zoology. Lepidoptera. Heterocera Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 1-490 3: pl. 1-101

Hübner, [1807]

Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge, Vol. 1 (1806 - [1819]) Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : [1-4] (1807) [5-12] (1807-1809) [13-36] (1823-1824) pl. [1-2], [5-8], [12], [15], [29], [47] (1806) pl. [9], [11], [17], [21], [25-27], [32], [35], [43-44], [56], [60], [79], [102], [104], [116], [141], [148], [150-151], [155], [159], [200] (1807) pl. [19], [39], [57], [73], [82], [114], [157], [167], [170], [173], [187] (1807) pl. [3], [31], [37], [46], [54], [58], [62], [76], [84], [92], [95], [105], [112-113], [117], [137-138], [146], [154], [158], [180], [209] (1808) pl. [16], [28], [65], [89], [142], [160], [162], [166], [182], [188], [193] (1809) pl. [4], [22], [42], [53], [61], [88], [90], [97], [100], [107], [110], [118], [120], [140], [143], [149], [161], [171], [178], [184], [196], [202] (1809) pl. [10], [18], [30], [41], [51], [80], [144], [172], [189] (1810) pl. [36], [70], [87], [91], [101], [124], [129], [177], [183], [207], [210] (1811) pl. [20], [38], [45], [55], [85], [98], [103], [108], [136], [139], [152-153], [156], [163], [179], [186], [190], [205-206] (1812) pl. [13-14], [40], [48], [50], [67], [74], [86], [119], [121], [130], [135], [175-176], [197-199], [204-204], [212] (1813) pl. [72], [75], [77-78], [83], [93], [109], [111], [115], [128], [131], [165], [174], [194] (1813) pl. [24], [49], [52], [63-64], [66], [68-69], [71], [81], [123], [145], [181], [192] (1814) pl. [126], [132-134], [168] (1815) pl. [23], [96], [122], [125], [169], [195] (1816) pl. [33], [99], [127], [187], [185], [213] (1817) pl. [59], [106], [147], [164], [208], [211] (1818) pl. [34], [94], [191], [201] (1819) (Index Systematicus) [1-4] (1819 - April 1823)

Hübner, [1819]

Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816) (2): 17-32 (1819) (3): 33-48 (1819) (4): 49-64 (1819) (5): 65-80 (1819) (6): 81-96 (1819) (7): 97-112 (1819) (8): 113-128 (1819) (9): 129-144 (1819) (10): 145-160 (1819) (11): 161-176 (1819) (12): 177-192 (1820) (13): 193-208 (1820) (14): 209-224 (1821) (15): 225-240 (1821) (16): 241-256 (1821) (17): 257-272 (1823) (18): 273-288 (1823) (19): 289-304 (1823) (20): 305-320 (1825) (21): 321-336 (1825) (22): 337-352 (1825) (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])

Linnaeus, 1758

Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 1-338 339-824

Walker, 1855

List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 1: 1-278 (1854) 2: 279-581 (1854) 3: 582-775 (1855) 4: 776-976 (1855) 5: 977-1258 (1855) 6: 1259-1508 (1855) 7: 1509-1808 (1856)

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