1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

1-2: ♂, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane-area., Main Range NP, Spicers Gap, 620 m, 23. January 2006 lux; (det. & phot.: Egbert Friedrich)

3: Indonesien, Bali, Batubulan, 5. Dezember 2010 (det. & fot.: Kersten Krause)

4-5: Bhutan, Tsirang, Damphu, im Ort, 1000 m, 18. April 2018, Nachtfund (det. & fot.: Oskar Jungklaus), conf. Michel KettnerForum

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description, figure indicated therein, and text about the figure

1-4: Cramer ([1777]: 150, pl. CLXXIV fig. A, 117-118) [from copyright-free scans at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Phalaena salaminia Cramer, [1777] [original combination]

3.2. Faunistics

[Global Biodiversity Information Facility] reports the spewcies from Taiwan, Australia, India, Hongkong, Japan, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Brasilia?, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, South Korea, Macau, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fidschi, Papua New Guinea, Salomon Islands, and Eastern Timor.

Locus typicus according to the original description: Chine.

(Author: Michel Kettner)

3.3. Year of publication of the original description

According to Hemming (1958: 41), the entire volume was published in 1777.

(Author: Jürgen Rodeland)

3.4. Literature

• Original description: Cramer, P. (“1779”) [1777]: De uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America 2: 1-151, pl. XCVII-CXVII. Amsteldam (S. J. Baalde), Utrecht (Barthelemy Wild).
• Hemming, F. (1958): Opinion 516. — Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19 (1): 1-44. London.

3.5. Information from other websites (external links)

• [BOLD]
• [Global Biodiversity Information Facility]
• [Moths of Borneo]
• [Australian Lepidoptera Butterflyhouse]