''Brahmaea ledereri'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family

Brahmaeidae Brahmaeidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, commonly known as Brahmin moths. It includes species formerly included in the family Lemoniidae.Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia ...

first described by

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (22 December 1831, in Vienna – 15 January 1897, in Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was mai ...

in 1873. It is found in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

."''Brahmaea ledereri'' Rogenhofer, 1873"
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is 110–125 mm.

Subspecies

*''Brahmaea ledereri ledereri'' Rogenhofer, 1873 *''Brahmaea ledereri zaba'' de Freina, 1982 (eastern Turkey)

References

Brahmaeidae Moths described in 1873 Insects of Turkey Taxa named by Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer {{Bombycoidea-stub