Attacus

Attacus Linnaeus, 1767

Attacus Linnaeus, 1767; Syst. Nat. (Edn 12) 1 (2): 808; TS: Phalaena atlas Linnaeus
Arcuata Perry, 1811; Arcana: [Cc7] [199]

Arcuata; [NHM-BMW]
Attacus; Godman & Salvin, 1886, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 189; [MOB3], 110; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Attacus (Attacini);

Attacus atlas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Oriental Region (tropics), Sundaland. See [maps]

Phalaena atlas Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 495
Phalaena vitrea Perry, 1811; Arcana: [Cc7] [199], pl. [51] (repl. name)
?Attacus talas Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (10): 156
Saturnia silhetica Helfer, 1837; J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 6: 41; TL: Khasia Hills
Attacus taprobanis Moore, [1883]; Lepid. Ceylon 2 (2): 124, pl. 127
Attacus atlas gladiator Fruhstorfer, 1904; Soc. Ent. 18 (22): 169; TL: Singapore; Siam
Attacus atlas sumatranus Fruhstorfer, 1904; Soc. Ent. 18 (22): 169; TL: W.Sumatra
Attacus atlas mannus Fruhstorfer, 1904; Soc. Ent. 18 (22): 169; TL: N.Borneo
Attacus atlas triumphator Fruhstorfer, 1904; Soc. Ent. 18 (22): 169; TL: E.Java
Attacus atlas erebus Fruhstorfer, 1904; Soc. Ent. 18 (22): 169; TL: N.Celebes
Attacus atlas mannus Fruhstorfer, 1904; Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 286; TL: N.Borneo, Kina-Balu
Attacus atlas roseus Fruhstorfer, 1904; Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 287; TL: W.Java
Attacus atlas erebus Fruhstorfer, 1904; Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 289; TL: N.Celebes, Menado

Attacus atlas atlas; Fruhstorfer, 1904, Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 284; [iNaturalist]
Attacus atlas formosanus; [iNaturalist]
Attacus atlas gladiator; Fruhstorfer, 1904, Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 285
Attacus atlas silhetica; Fruhstorfer, 1904, Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 284
Attacus atlas simalurana; [CoL] ; [GBCL]
Attacus atlas sumatranus; Fruhstorfer, 1904, Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 286
Attacus atlas talus[sic, talas?]; Fruhstorfer, 1904, Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 284
Attacus atlas taprobanis; Fruhstorfer, 1904, Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 285
Attacus atlas triumphator; Fruhstorfer, 1904, Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6): 286
Attacus atlas; Holloway, 1976, Moths of Borneo Kinabalu: 85; Allen, 1981, Brunei Mus. J. 5 (1): 110; Barlow, 1982, Intr. Moths of South East Asia: 48; Lampe, 1985, Malayan Saturniidae ...: 6; [MOB3], 111; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MOB]
Attacus erebus; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Attacus taprobanis; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]

640x474 (~41Kb) larva (commercially cultivated, India) ex.o., Photo 22.6.1979 © Pertti Pakkanen	800x595 (~42Kb) larva (commercially cultivated, India) ex.o., Photo 26.6.1979 © Pertti Pakkanen	800x1039 (~81Kb) larva (commercially cultivated, India) ex.o., Photo 10.7.1979 © Pertti Pakkanen
1000x806 (~89Kb) larva (commercially cultivated, India) ex.o., Photo 29.7.1979 © Pertti Pakkanen	1200x836 (~164Kb) ♂ upperside (commercially cultivated, India) ex.o., Photo 27.9.1979 © Pertti Pakkanen	396x600 (~38Kb) Butterfly House (Vienna, Austria, April 2001), Photo © Erich Mangl
900x720 (~156Kb) ♀ upperside Thailand, Photo © D. Smirnov	900x720 (~127Kb) ♀ underside Thailand, Photo © D. Smirnov

Attacus wardi Rothschild, 1910

AU. See [maps]

Attacus dohertyi wardi; [LepIndex]
Attacus wardi; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [Don Herbison-Evans]

Attacus dohertyi Rothschild, 1895

Timor, Flores. See [maps]

Attacus dohertyi Rothschild, 1895; Novit. Zool. 2 (1): 36; TL: Timor; Flores
Attacus dohertyi soembanus van Eecke, 1933; Zool. Meded. 16 (6): 63; TL: Soemba

Attacus dohertyi dammermani; [LepIndex]
Attacus dohertyi soembanus; [LepIndex]
Attacus dohertyi; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Attacus soembanus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]

Attacus aurantiacus Rothschild, 1895

New Guinea. See [maps]

Attacus aurantiacus Rothschild, 1895; Novit. Zool. 2 (1): 36; TL: NW. New Guinea

Attacus aurantiacus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]

Attacus crameri Felder, 1861

Attacus crameri Felder, 1861; S.B. Akad. Wiss. Wien 43 (1): 31; TL: Amboina
Attacus lorquinii C. & R. Felder, 1861; Wien. ent. Monats. 5 (10): 306; TL: Luzon

Attacus crameri caesar; [LepIndex]
Attacus crameri inopinatus; [LepIndex]
Attacus crameri lorquinii; [LepIndex]
Attacus crameri; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Attacus lorquinii banghaasi; [GBCL]
Attacus lorquinii calayanensis; [GBCL]
Attacus lorquinii; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [LEPIFORUM]

Attacus tucumani Dognin, 1901; Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 45: 304; TL: Tucuman

Attacus vibidia Druce, 1904; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 13 (76): 244; TL: Argentina, Tucuman

References:

[BCA] electronic
BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[D. Smirnov]
Russia, Moscow; e-mail: D. Smirnov
[Don Herbison-Evans] and Stella A. Crossley
Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths
[Erich Mangl]
http://www.mangl.at
[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
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[MOB] Holloway & Barlow
Online version of; Moths of Borneo
[NBC] Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis
NBC naturalis
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Pertti Pakkanen]
e-mail: Pertti Pakkanen; Butterfly and moth observations from Finland
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Allen, 1981
The saturniid moths of Borneo with special reference to Brunei Brunei Mus. J. 5 (1): 100-126
Barlow, 1982
An Introduction to the Moths of South East Asia Intr. Moths of South East Asia: 305pp, ix, 50pls
Dognin, 1901
Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 45 : 173-189, 304-311
Druce, 1904
Descriptions of some new Species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Tropical South America Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 13 (76) : 241-250
van Eecke, 1933
Some new Malayan Lepidoptera Zool. Meded. 16 (6): 61-64
Felder, 1861
Lepidopterorum Amboinensium a Dre. L. Doleschall annis 1856-58 collectorum species novae S.B. Akad. Wiss. Wien 43 (1) : 26-44
C. & R. Felder, 1861
Lepidoptera nova a Dr. Carolo Semper in Insulis Philippinis collecta diagnosibus. (1) Wien. ent. Monats. 5 (10) : 297-306
Fruhstorfer, 1904
Neue Attacus atlas Formen Soc. Ent. 18 (22) : 169-170 (15 February)
Fruhstorfer, 1904
Mitteilungen über Attacus atlas L. und Verwandte Ent. Meddel. 2 (5/6) : 283-290 (June)
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
Helfer, 1837
On the indigenous Silkworms of India J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 6 : 38-47
Holloway, 1976
Moths of Borneo with special reference to Mt. Kinabalu Moths of Borneo Kinabalu : 1-264
[MOB3]; Holloway, 1987
Superfamily Bombycoidea: families Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae [1998 reprint] Moths of Borneo 3
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])
[GBCL]; Kitching, Rougerie, Zwick, Hamilton, St Lauren, Naumann, Mejia, Kawahara, 2018
A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) Biodiv. Data J. 6: e22236
Lampe, 1985
Malayan Saturniidae from the Cameron and Genting Highlands. A guide for collectors Malayan Saturniidae ...: -
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
Linnaeus, 1767
Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, .... Editio Duocecima Reformata. Tom. 1. Part II. Syst. Nat. (Edn 12) 1 (2) : 533-1327, : Errata
Moore, [1883]
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Lepid. Ceylon 2 (1): 1-72, pl. 72-107 (1882), (2): 73-162, pl. 108-143 ([1883])
Rothschild, 1895
Notes on Saturnidae; with a preliminary revision of the family down to the genus Automeris, and descriptions of some species Novit. Zool. 2 (1): 35-51, pl. 10

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