1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

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

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

2.1. Original description, figures indicates therein, and text to the figues

1-4: Cramer ([1779]: 174, pl. CCXXVII fig. C, 59-60) [from copyright-free scans at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Phalaena cephise Cramer, [1779] [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Trigonodes maxima Guenée, 1852 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Chalchiope saina Swinhoe, 1918 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Publication year and authorship of the original description

Hemming (1958: 42) idicates the publication years and authorships of volume 3 of “De uitlandsche kapellen”:

• 1-104, pl. CXCIII-CCLII Cramer [1779]
• 105-176, pl. CCLIII-CCLXXXVIII Cramer & Stoll [1780] (“Written by Cramer and published after his death by Caspar Stoll”)

(Author: Jürgen Rodeland)

3.4. Literature

• Original description: Cramer, P. (“1782”) [1779-1780]: De uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America 3: 1-176, pl. CICIII-CCLXXXVIII. 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.