Abstract
A new species of the genus Temnora Walker, 1856, Temnora rotundus sp. nov. is described from southwestern Tanzania (Iringa region). The determination of a new taxon was achieved by comparison with the habitually close taxa in this group, taking into account the region of occurrence.
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A new species of Samia is described from central and southern Vietnam: S. vuvanlieni, sp. n. The male holotype will be deposited in the collections of Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany. It is nearest related to S. watsoni Oberthür, 1914 and S. formosana Matsumura, 1913, stat. rev., which we remove from synonymy and for which we figure some early instars. The replacement name Archaeosamia Brechlin, 2007, syn. nov., (for Desgodinsia Oberthür, 1914) is placed into synonymy of Samia. More than 10 years after publication of a generic revision of Samia, taxonomic acts published since then are summarized and evaluated. Aside from a few descriptions, there were some taxonomic acts to which we refer: S. burica Brechlin, 2007, syn. nov. is found to be a junior synonym of S. naessigi Naumann & Peigler, 2001; S. kalimantanensis U & L. H. Paukstadt, 2011, syn. nov. is interpreted as a junior synonym of S. tetrica (Rebel, 1924), and the revised synonymy of S. borneenesis (Rebel, 1925), stat. rev. with that taxon is re-instated; S. selayarensis U. & L. H. Paukstadt, 2013, syn. nov. is interpreted as a junior synonym of S. vandenberghi (Watson, 1915); the new taxon S. beekei U. & L. H. Paukstadt, 2012 is accepted as valid species; the proposed synonymy of S. pryeri (Butler, 1878), stat. rev. with S. cynthia (Drury, 1773) is revised; and, finally, the current synonymic status of S. canningi (Hutton, 1859) with S. ricini (Jones, 1791) is pointed out.
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