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Brahmaea Walker 1855

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr-t 100 - let Vladivostoka, 159, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.
  • 2. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment, 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

Description

Genus Brahmaea Walker, 1855

Brahmaea Walker, 1855: 1315.

T.s.: Bombyx certhia Fabricius, 1793, designated by Hampson (1893: 29) (ICZN 1991: Case 2737; ICZN 1992: Opinion 1698).

Notes

Published as part of Beljaev, Еvgeniy A. & Makhov, Ilya A., 2025, A study on the taxonomy and distribution of Brahmaea certhia species group (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae) using an integrative approach and websites data, pp. 53-105 in Zootaxa 5715 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/17888816

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A7062B66FFF36725FF22F8DE4940DCA2

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.7 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17888816 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/5B3F531EFFFA672CFFB5FFD04B64DB28 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9E3C40A8-E2C0-47CB-A99D-05C46E33FA5D (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/A7062B66FFF36725FF22F8DE4940DCA2 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/311021872 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313678/taxon/A7062B66FFF36725FF22F8DE4940DCA2.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lemoniidae
Genus
Brahmaea
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Brahmaea Walker, 1855 sec. Beljaev & Makhov, 2025

References

  • Walker, F. (1855) Lepidoptera Heterocera. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part VI. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 1259-1507. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.58221
  • Fabricius, J. Ch. (1793) Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. III Pars I. C. G. Proft, fil., Hafniae [Copenhagen], 487 + [1] pp. [in Latin] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.122153
  • Hampson, G. F. (1893) [1892] The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. Vol. 1. Taylor and Francis, London, 527 pp.
  • ICZN (1992) Opinion 1698. Brahmaea Walker, 1855 (Insecta, Lepidoptera): Bombyx certhia Fabricius, 1793 confirmed as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 49 (4), 294.