Brahmaea Loeffleri
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''Brahmaea'' is a genus of
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s of the family
Brahmaeidae Brahmaeidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, ...
. ''Acanthobrahmaea'', ''Brahmidia'', and ''Brachygnatha'' are synonyms. ''Acanthobrahmaea'' has sometimes been considered a subgenus, describing an endemic relict species that only occurs in the vicinity of the
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in Italy.


Species

*''Brachygnatha diastemata'', found in
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(Shaanxi).Zhang & Yang, 1993 *'' Brahmaea ardjoeno'' (Kalis, 1934) *'' Brahmaea celebica'' Toxopeus, 1939 *'' Brahmaea certhia'' (Fabricius, 1793) *'' Brahmaea christophi'' Staudinger, 1879 *'' Brahmaea hearseyi'' (White, 1862) *'' Brahmaea japonica'' (Butler, 1873) *'' Brahmaea ledereri'' (Rogenhofer, 1873) *'' Brahmaea litserra'' H.L. Hao, X.R. Zhang & J.K. Yang, 2002 *'' Brahmaea loeffleri'' Naumann & Brosch, 2005 *'' Brahmaea naessigi'' Naumann & Brosch, 2005 *'' Brahmaea paukstadtorum'' Naumann & Brosch, 2005 *'' Brahmaea tancrei'' (Austaut, 1896) *''
Brahmaea wallichii ''Brahmaea wallichii'', also known as the owl moth, is a moth from the family Brahmaeidae, the Brahmin moths, and one of its largest species. It is found in the north of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, and Japan. The owl moth is noc ...
'' (Gray, 1831) *'' Brahmidia polymehntas'' H.L. Hao, X.R. Zhang & J.K. Yang, 2002


References


Further reading

* , 1982: Eine neue population von ''Brahmaea ledereri'' Rogenhofer, 1873, (''Brahmaea ledereri zaba'' ssp. n.) in Türkisch-Kurdistan, sowie nachweis der konspezifität von ''Brahmaea ledereri'' Rogenhofer, 1873, und ''Brahmaea christophi'' Staudinger, 1879 (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae). ''Entomofauna'' 3 (9): 129–139. Full article

* , 2002: Two new species of ''Brahmaeidae'' from China (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae). ''Acta Entomologica Sinica'' 45 (Suppl.): 53–55. Full article

* , 2005: Zur verbreitung der ''hearseyi''-Gruppe (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae: Brahmaea Walker, 1855) in Indonesien und auf den Philippinen. ''Galathea'' 21 (2): 97–104. Brahmaeidae Bombycoidea genera Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist) {{Bombycoidea-stub