Brahmaea

Brahmaea Walker, 1855

Brahmaea Walker, 1855; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 5: 1200 [key], 6:1315; TS: Brahmaea conchifera Butler
Brahmophthalma Mell, 1930; Dt. ent. Zs. 1929: 346; TS: Bombyx wallichii Gray
Brahmaeops Bryk, 1949; Ark. Zool. 41 A (1): 21; TS: Brahmaea japonica Butler

Brahmaea; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Brahmaea (Brahmaeidae); [RFEL]
Brahmaeops; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Brahmophthalma; [NHM-BMW]

Unmatched external taxa

Brahmaea bicolor; [LepIndex] ; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea bramarbas; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea celebica; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea diastemata; [CoL]
Brahmaea goniata; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea jilinensis; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea litserra; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea loeffleri; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea lunulata; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea lunulata carpenteri; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea lunulata lunulata; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea lunulata; [GBCL]
Brahmaea lunulata carpenteri; [GBCL]
Brahmaea magnificentia; [LepIndex] ; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea naessigi; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea panmacula; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea paukstadtorum; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea polymehntas; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea polymentas; [CoL]
Brahmaea porphyria; [LepIndex]
Brahmaea recta; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea separata; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea sinica; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea totimacula; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]

Bombyx certhia Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 412

Brahmaea certhia certhia; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea certhia porphyria; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea certhia; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]

Misidentified/misapplied:

Brahmaea certhia (= Brahmaea wallichi); Walker, 1855, List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 6: 1316

Brahmophthalma hearseyi White

Brahmaea hearseyi hearseyi; [iNaturalist]
Brahmaea hearseyi; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MOB]

Brahmophthalma hearseyi ardjoeno Kalis, 1934; Ent. Rdsch. 51 (19): 209; TL: Poenten (Ardjoeno)

Brahmaea ardjoeno; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [GBCL]
Brahmaea hearseyi ardjoeno; [iNaturalist]

References:

[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
[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
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[ZOBODAT] Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum
OÖ. Landesmuseum; ZOBODAT - Literatur
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Bryk, 1949
Zur Kenntnis der Großschmetterlinge von Korea. II. Macrofrenatae Ark. Zool. 41 A (1) : 1-225, pl. 1-7
Butler, 1873
Description of a new species of Brahmaea, in the collection of the British Museum Ent. mon. Mag. 10 : 56-57
Butler, 1880
Note on the genus Brahmaea of Walker Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 5 (26) : 188-189
Fabricius, 1793
Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Ent. Syst. 3 (1) : 1-487
de Freina, 1982
Eine neue Population von Brahmaea ledereri Rogenhofer, 1873 (Brahmaea ledereri zaba ssp.n.) in Turkisch Kurdistan, sowie Nachweis der Konspezifität von Brahmaea ledereri Rogenhofer, 1873 und Brahmaea christophi Staudinger, 1879 (Lepidoptera, Brahmaeidae) Entomofauna 3 : 129-139
de Freina, 1982
Nachweis von Brahmaea (Brahmophtalma) wallichi (Gray, 1833) im westlichen Himalaja: Brahmaea walchii saifulica ssp. n. (Lep., Brahmaeidae) Nota Lepid. 5 (2-3) : 81-85
de Freina, 1994
9. Beitrag zur systematischen Erfassung der Bombyces- und Sphinges Fauna Kleinasiens. Weitere Kenntnisse über Artenspektrum, Systematik und Verbreitung von Cossidae, Psychidae, Cochlididae, Syntomidae, Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae, Drepanidae, Axiidae, Hepialidae, Dilobidae und Nolidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) Atalanta 25 (1/2) : 317-349
Gray, 1831
The Zoological Miscellany Zool. Miscell. (1): [1], 1-40 (1831), (2a): 41-48 (1842), (2b): 49-56 (1842), (2c): 57-72 (1842), (2d): 73-80 (1842), (3): 81-86 (1844)
Kalis, 1934
Über javanische Heteroceren V Ent. Rdsch. 51 (19) : 209-210
[GBCL]; Kitching, Rougerie, Zwick, Hamilton, St Lauren, Naumann, Mejia, Kawahara, 2018
A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) Biodiv. Data J. 6: e22236
[RFEL]; Leley, 2016
Annotated catalogue of the insects of Russian Far East. Volume II. Lepidoptera Cat. ins. Russian Far East. 2 : 1-812
Mell, 1930
Beiträge zur Fauna sinica. V. Die Brahmaeiden und Eupterotiden Chinas Dt. ent. Zs. 1929 : 337-494
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: 583-775 (1855), 4: 777-976 (1855), 5: 977-1258 (1855), 6: 1259-1508 (1855), 7: 1509-1808 (1856)

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