Archaeoattacus malayanus (Kurosawa & Kishida, 1984)

Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Kondakov, Alexander V., Bovykina, Galina V., Okulova, Anastasia I. & Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., 2025, The Brahmaeidae and Saturniidae of Laos (Lepidoptera), Ecologica Montenegrina 84, pp. 108-152 : 111

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.84.10
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:18433F0C-7212-45F1-9146-16697699EE36
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16960530
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AB0FED07-3D33-FFA9-FF6A-FC1FFDD6FA47
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Archaeoattacus malayanus (Kurosawa & Kishida, 1984)
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Archaeoattacus malayanus (Kurosawa & Kishida, 1984) View in CoL

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Material examined. LAOS: Luang Namtha Province, Muang Long town , tropical forest, 20°57'25"N, 100°49'20"E, 11– 22.05.2016, V. Spitsyn leg. – 1♂ GoogleMaps ; Phongsaly Province, mountain tropical forest, 21°37'18"N, 101°57'06"E, 12– 13.08.2024, V. Spitsyn & E. Spitsyna leg. – 1♂ GoogleMaps .

Distribution in Laos. Luang Prabang Province ( Brosch et al. 1999; Racheli et al. 2008; Kishida et al. 2020), Xieng Khouang Province ( Kishida et al. 2020), Vientiane Province, Phongsaly Province ( Naumann et al. 2016), and Luang Namtha Province (this study).

Remarks. (1) The first record from Luang Namtha Province. (2) Previously, the species was incorrectly recorded as “ Archaeoattacus edwardsii (White, 1859) ” ( Brosch et al. 1999; Racheli et al. 2008; Kishida et al. 2020). (3) Naumann et al. (2016) provided Archaeoattacus malayanus ’ distribution map, where three black points indicate the records from northern Laos (Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Phongsaly provinces), which actually belong to A. malayanus , whereas the black point indicating the records from southern Laos is given incorrectly and probably belongs to Archaeoattacus vietnamensis Naumann, Rougerie & Nässig, 2016 .