Wolfgang A. Nässig Liste der Neubeschreibungen und Patronyme List of New Taxa and Patronyms (Stand/As of: 27. April 2018)

Lepidoptera: Saturniidae Eupterotidae (In alphabetischer Reihenfolge/In alphabetic order.)	Patronyme/Patronyms Zur Publikationsliste/To the List of Publications
Mit Angabe des Typendepositionsortes (HT = Holotypus). Mit Angaben zum bekannten Vorkommen der neuen Taxa. Mit Angaben zur Namensgebung. Alle Taxa in der originalen Kombination; eventuelle spätere Änderungen sind nicht angegeben.	With information about the type depository (HT = holotype). With information about the known distribution area. With explanations of the names. All taxa in original combination; possible later changes are not shown.

Lepidoptera, Saturniidae:

• Actias philippinica Nässig & Treadaway, 1997

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (4): 327; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippine Islands.
(Etymology: named after the distribution range of the species.)

• Actias philippinica bulbosa Nässig & Treadaway, 1997

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (4): 336; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippines: Palawan.
(Etymology: named after the distinctive bulbous knot of the cephal end of the saccus in the male genitalia.)
 
• Actias selene brevijuxta Nässig & Treadaway, 1997

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 18 (1): 92; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippine Islands: Luzon, Mindoro, Mindanao.
(Etymology: named after the very short juxta, compared with other taxa in the group.)
 
• Actias laovieta Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 176; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam, Laos.
(Etymology: named after the distribution range of the species.)
 
• Aglia ingens Naumann, Brosch & Nässig, 2003

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 24 (4): 181; HT in Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) — China: Sichuan, Gongga Shan.
(Etymology: named after the large size: INGENS [Latin]: very large.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) cihangiri Naumann & Nässig, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 18 (4): 323; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Indonesia: Pulau Peleng (Banggaai Archipelago).
(Etymology: named after Cihangir GÜMÜSTÜRKMEN, Berlin, Germany, a friend of the senior author.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) gschwandneri zwicki Nässig & Treadaway, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, Suppl.17: 385; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippine Islands: Palawan.
(Etymology: named after Andreas ZWICK, Schlitz, Germany, for his support of our studies on the Philippines, namely on Palawan.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) gulata Nässig & Treadaway, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, Suppl.17: 377; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippine Islands: Palawan.
(Etymology: named after the Tagalog word for “surprise”: gulat — this species was formerly confounded with the similar Bornean species A. brunei.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) hollowayi Nässig & Naumann, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 18 (4): 322; HT presently in BMNH, London, will later be deposited in Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor) — Indonesia: Seram.
(Etymology: dedicated to Dr. Jeremy D. HOLLOWAY, Dorking/London, United Kingdom.)
 
• Antheraea lampei Nässig & Holloway, 1989

(Heterocera Sumatrana, Göttingen, 2 (7): 188; HT in BMNH, London) — Northern Sundaland: Sumatra, West Malaysia, Borneo.
(Etymology: named in honour of Rudolf E. J. LAMPE, Nürnberg, Germany, who was the first to recognize this species as separate.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) larissa philippirissa Treadaway & Nässig, 1997

(Entomologische  Zeitschrift, Essen, 107 (5): 192; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippines Islands except Palawan.
(Etymology: a combination of the distribution range of this subspecies and the specific name larissa.)

• Antheraea (Antheraea) mentawai Nässig, Lampe & Kager, 2002

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 22 (4): 228; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Mentawai Islands off Sumatra, Indonesia.
(Etymology: it is named after the collecting locality, the Mentawai islands.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) paukstadtorum Naumann, Holloway & Nässig, 1996

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (3): 237; HT presently in BMNH, London, will later be deposited in Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor) — Indonesia: Sulawesi.
(Etymology: named after the PAUKSTADT family, Capt. Ulrich and Laela Hayati, Wilhelmshaven, Germany.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) rosemariae Holloway, Nässig & Naumann, 1995

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 16 (2/3): 299; HT presently in BMNH, London, will later be deposited in Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor) — Indonesia: Sulawesi.
(Etymology: named after Rosemary, the former wife of Col. Michael ALLEN, England.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) rosieri imeldae Nässig & Treadaway, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, Suppl.17: 305; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippines Islands: Palawan.
(Etymology: named after Imelda, the wife of Roy RODRIGUEZ, Palawan, for his support.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) semperi noeli Nässig & Treadaway, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, Suppl.17: 376; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippines Islands: Mindoro.
(Etymology: named after Noel MOHAGAN, who collected the taxon on Mindoro.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) taripaensis Naumann, Nässig & Holloway, 1996

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (3): 247; HT presently in BMNH, London, will later be deposited in Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor) — Indonesia: Sulawesi.
(Etymology: named after the type locality on Sulawesi.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) viridiscura Holloway, Nässig & Naumann, 1996

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (3): 249; HT presently in BMNH, London, will later be deposited in Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor) — Indonesia: Sulawesi.
(Etymology: named after the darkly shaded greenish colouration of the new taxon.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) luteofrithi Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 178; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the typical overall yellow ground colour in both sexes of most know specimens and the close similarity to Antheraea (Antheraea) frithi Moore, 1859.)

 
• Antheraea (Antheraea) scida Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 177; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the typical reddish brown line on ventral wing side. Scida is the ablativus of the Latin word “SCIDA” and means “with stripe”.)

 
• Antheraea (Antheraeopsis) paniki Nässig & Treadaway, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, Suppl.17: 288; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Philippines Islands.
(Etymology: named after the Tagalog word for “bat”: paniki.)
 
• Antheraea (Antheraeopsis) paniki sahi Nässig & Treadaway, 1998

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, Suppl.17: 294; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Palawan, Philippines.
(Etymology: named after the Cebuan word “sahi” = “different from the rest”.)
 
• Archaeoattacus vietnamensis Naumann, Rougerie & Nässig, 2016

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, N.F. 37 (1): 5; HT in coll. S. Naumann, assigned to the Rainer Seegers Foundation in the collections of ZMHU, Berlin) — S. Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the locality of origin.)
 
• Copaxa bella Wolfe, Naumann, Brosch, Wenczel & Nässig, 2005 [in Wolfe 2005]

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 26 (3): 127; HT in Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) — Peru, Junin prov.
(Etymology: named after the species’ beauty.)
 
• Coscinocera misoolensis Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 179; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Indonesia, Misool.
(Etymology: named after the island of origin.)

 
• Cricula halconensis Nässig & Treadaway, 2011

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 31 (4): 189; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Mindoro, Philippines.
(Etymology: named after Mt. Halcon, where the holotype was found.)
 
• Cricula leyteana bayani Nässig & Treadaway, 2011

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 31 (4): 191; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Panay, Philippines.
(Etymology: dedicated to Bayani LUMAWIG for his contribution to the study of Philippine Lepidoptera.)
 
• Cricula luzonica kareli Nässig & Treadaway, 1997

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (4): 353; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Mindanao, Philippines.
(Etymology: dedicated to Dr. Karel CERNÝ, Zirl/Innsbruck, Austria, who collected the new species first.)
 
• Cricula luzonica leyteana Nässig & Treadaway, 1997

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (4): 352; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Leyte, Philippines.
(Etymology: named after the known distribution range.)
 
• Cricula mindanaensis Nässig & Treadaway, 1997

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (4): 346; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Mindanao, Philippines.
(Etymology: named after the known distribution range.)
 
• Cricula trifenestrata agrioides Nässig, 1989

(Entomologische  Zeitschrift, Essen, 99 (13): 186; HT in BMNH, London) — South India.
(Etymology: named after the external resemblance to Cricula agria, the second Cricula species known from South India.)
 
• Cricula trifenestrata serama Nässig, 1989

(Entomologische  Zeitschrift, Essen, 99 (13): 188; HT in BMNH, London) — Indonesia, Seram.
(Etymology: named after the known distribution range.)
 
• Cricula trifenestrata treadawayi Nässig, 1989

(Entomologische  Zeitschrift, Essen, 99 (13): 190; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Negros and probably many other islands of the Philippines.
(Etymology: named after Colin G. TREADAWAY, who found this species first on the Philippines.)

• Cricula vietnama Brechlin, Nässig & Naumann, 1999 — see also here

(Senckenbergiana biologica, Frankfurt am Main, 78: 187; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the originally known distribution range.)
 
• Cricula zubsiana Nässig, 1985

(Nota lepidopterologica 8 (2): 185; HT in Museum A. Koenig, Bonn) — China: Yunnan.
(Etymology: named after an early nickname of Petra M. T. ZUB, then Frankfurt am Main [now Schlüchtern], Germany, and dedicated to her in friendship.)
 
• Cricula acuta Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 176; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named for the acute shape of the forewing apex.)

 
• Cricula sokola Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 173; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the vietnamese word for chocolate: “sokola”, for the ground colour.)

 
• Hyalophora leonis Naumann, Nogueira G. & Nässig, 2014 [December 9th]

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 35 (4): 196; HT in coll. IBUNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México/Mexico City.) — Mexico: Nuevo León; Sierra Madre Oriental.
(Etymology: named after the Mexican federal state Nuevo León, where most of the type specimens were found.)
 
• Hyalophora mexicana Nässig, Nogueira G. & Naumann, 2014 [October 29th]

(Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, Arcadia [Calif.], 47: 52; HT in coll. IBUNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México/Mexico City.) — Mexico: Zacatecas; Central Mexico.
(Etymology: named after Mexico, being the first separate species of the genus identified from there.)
 
• Lemaireia Nässig & Holloway, 1987

(in: Holloway, The Moths of Borneo 3: 108) — SE Asia.
(Etymology: dedicated to Dr. Claude LEMAIRE, Gordes, France, for his great life work on the family Saturniidae.)
 
• Lemaireia hainana Nässig & Wang, 2006

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 27 (1/2): 24; HT in coll. South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China) — PR China, Hainan.
(Etymology: named after the known distribution range, the Chinese island of Hainan.)
 
• Lemaireia inexspectata Nässig, 1996

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (3): 278; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Central Vietnam.
(Etymology: this species is externally extremely similar to the related L. luteopeplus and L. chrysopeplus, and specimens have been mistaken and published as L. luteopeplus aureopeplus in an earlier publication. Only during a routine dissection series of the male genitalia of several specimens the new species was quite unexpectedly discovered, due to its very distinct genitalia.)

• Lemaireia luteopeplus Nässig & Holloway, 1988

(Heterocera Sumatrana, Göttingen, 2 (6): 120; HT in BMNH, London) — NE India.
(Etymology: The new species is externally very similar to L. chrysopeplus from Sundaland. The names of this species and its subspecies aureopeplus [see below] resemble the name of this earlier described species: chrysos [Greek] = gold; luteum [Latin] = yellow; aureum [Latin] = gold; in all these “-peplus” cases the second part of the name originates from peplum [Latin] = a splendid cape or mantle.)

• Lemaireia luteopeplus aureopeplus Nässig & Holloway, 1988

(Heterocera Sumatrana, Göttingen, 2 (6): 120; HT in BMNH, London) — Burma, Thailand, N-Vietnam, probably also China.
(Etymology: see above.)
 
• Lemaireia schintlmeisteri Nässig & Lampe, 1989

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 10 (3): 240; HT in BMNH, London) — Mindanao, Philippines.
(Etymology: named after Alexander SCHINTLMEISTER, Dresden, Germany, who, together with Karel CERNÝ, was the first to discover this species.)
 
• Lemaireia mediovietnama Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 173; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — C-Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the area of origin.)

 
• Loepa cynopis Nässig & Suhardjono, 1989

(Tinea, Tokyo, 12 (23): 206; HT in Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor) — Indonesia: Java, Bali.
(Etymology: the authors validated an unpublished manuscript name of uncertain meaning of the late J. L. TOXOPEUS, formerly Java.)
 
• Loepa diffundata Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2008

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 29 (3): 156; HT in Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) — Laos.
(Etymology: The name diffundata is a form of the Latin verb diffundere meaning “being [widely] distributed”, and it is grammatically a female adjectival form; however, the name was defined to be a substantive in apposition. The new species is named after its wide distribution across a large portion of continental Indochina.)
 
• Loepa elongata Naumann, Löffler & Nässig, 2012

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 33 (2/3): 101; HT in Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) — China, Sichuan.
(Etymology: The name elongata is based on the elongated forewing form which is quite unusual for the complex of otherwise more rectangularly shaped species around L. damartis.)
 
• Loepa melli Naumann, Löffler & Nässig, 2012

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 33 (2/3): 102; HT in Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) — China, Gansu.
(Etymology: The name melli is dedicated in honour to the late Rudolf E. Mell (1878–1970), a famous German entomologist and teacher who went after World War I to China where he worked in schools in Guangdong province and did a lot of entomological field work.)
 
• Loepa mirandula Yen, Nässig, Naumann & Brechlin, 2000

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 21 (3): 154; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Taiwan.
(Etymology: “a small miranda”; named after the general similarity to its congener and probably closest relative, Loepa miranda Atkinson in Moore, 1865.)
 
• Loepa nigropupillata Nässig & Treadaway, 1988

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 9 (3): 165; HT in BMNH, London) — Luzon, Sibuyan, probably further islands of the northern Philippines.
(Etymology: this is the only Loepa species known presently with a black “pupil” of the eyespots on all four wings.)
 
• Loepa palawana Nässig & Treadaway, 1997

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 17 (4): 360; HT in coll. Treadaway, assigned to Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Palawan, Philippines.
(Etymology: named after the known distribution range.)
 
• Loepa sumatrana Nässig, Lampe & Kager, 1989

(Heterocera Sumatrana, Göttingen, 2 (7): 147; HT in BMNH, London) — Indonesia: Sumatra.
(Etymology: named after the known distribution range.)
 
• Mexicantha Naumann, Nässig & Nogueira G., 2012

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 32 (3/4): 118) — Mexico.
(Etymology: named after Mexico and the related genus Catacantha.)
 
• Mexicantha oaxacana Naumann, Nässig & Nogueira G., 2012

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 32 (3/4): 118; HT in IBUNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México/Mexico City) — Mexico: Oaxaca.
(Etymology: named after the known distribution range in Oaxaca.)
 
• Opodiphthera decellei Lemaire & Nässig [in Nässig & Lemaire], 2002

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 23 (3): 98; HT in MNHN, Paris) — Papua Niugini: Bougainville Island.
(Etymology: named after the collector who first determined this species to be undescribed, G. ROUSSEAU-DECELLE.)
 
• Opodiphthera tennenti Nässig & Lemaire, 2002

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 23 (3): 100; HT in BMNH, London) — Solomon Islands: Guadalcanal.
(Etymology: named after the collector of the new species, J. TENNENT.)
 
• Rhodinia extremaustralis Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 179; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — S-Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the distribution in the extreme South of the genus in total.)

 
• Samia peigleri Naumann & Nässig, 1995

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 16 (1): 15; HT in Zoologisches Museum Amsterdam) — Indonesia: Sulawesi.
(Etymology: dedicated to Dr. Richard S. PEIGLER, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.)

• Saturnia paragrotei Naumann & Nässig, 2010

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 31 (1/2): 40; HT in ZMHU, Berlin) — Nepal.
(Etymology: named after the great external similarity, combined with DNA barcode differences, to Saturnia grotei Moore, 1859.)

• Saturnia rosalata Naumann & Nässig, 2010

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 31 (1/2): 41; HT in SMFL, Frankfurt am  Main) — Nepal.
(Etymology: named after the vividous rosy hindwing colours, usually more intensive than in the similar S. bonita (Jordan, 1911).)

• Saturnia sinanna Naumann & Nässig, 2010

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 31 (1/2): 54; HT in SMFL, Frankfurt am  Main) — China: Sichuan.
(Etymology: named as one of the Chinese members of the group of Saturnia anna Moore, 1865 [although more widely distributed and also found in Vietnam].)

• Saturnia tibetanna Naumann & Nässig, 2010

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 31 (1/2): 53; HT in ZMHU, Berlin) — China: Tibet.
(Etymology: named as the Tibetan member of the group of Saturnia anna Moore, 1865.)

• Saturnia (Cachosaturnia) Naumann, Löffler & Nässig, 2012

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 33 (2/3): 109; type species of the subgenus: Caligula cachara Moore, 1872).
(Etymology: The name of the subgenus is a combination of the name of the oldest taxon and type species of the new subgenus, Saturnia cachara, and the genus group name Saturnia.)
 

• Saturnia (Cachosaturnia) victoria Naumann, Löffler & Nässig, 2012

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 33 (2/3): 119; HT in ZMHU, Berlin).
(Etymology: The species is named after the type locality of the new taxon, the slopes of Mt. Victoria in Chin State, West Myanmar.)
 

• Saturnia (Neoris) bergmanni Naumann, Löffler & Nässig, 2017 [in Nässig, Naumann & Löffler (2017)]

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 37 (4): 197; HT in Museum für Naturkunde [ZMHU], Berlin). — Tadjikistan, Darvaz Mts.
(Etymology: it is named in honour of Andreas Bergmann, Forst/Lausitz [Brandenburg], Germany.)

• Saturnia (Neoris) clasnaumanni Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2017b — nomen novum pro: Saturnia (Neoris) naumanni Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2017a [in Nässig, Naumann & Löffler (2017a)]

(Description of primary homonymy Saturnia (Neoris) naumanni Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2017a [in: Nässig, Naumann & Löffler (2017a)]: Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 37 (4): 192.)
Correction: Naumann, S., Nässig, W. A., & Löffler, S. (2017b): Correcting a homonymy in Saturnia: Saturnia (Neoris) clasnaumanni Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, nom. nov. pro S. (Neoris) naumanni Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2017 nec S. (Rinaca) naumanni Brechlin, 2001 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) (Entomologische Notiz/Entomological Note). — Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, N.F. 38 (1): 52. — Volltext (PDF)/Full text (PDF).
(HT in Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde [LNK], Karlsruhe). — Afghanistan, Wakhan valley.)
(Etymology: it is named after its late collector, Clas M. Naumann, then from Bielefeld and Bonn, Germany.)

• Saturnia (Neoris) eckweileri Nässig, Naumann & Löffler, 2017

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 37 (4): 192; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main). — Pakistan, Beluchistan.
(Etymology: it is named after its collector, Wolfgang Eckweiler from Frankfurt am Main, Germany.)

• Saturnia (Perisomena) caecigena stroehlei Nässig, 2002

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 23 (1): 45; HT in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Cyprus.
(Etymology: it is named after its collector, M. STRÖHLE from Weiden/Opf., Germany.)

• Saturnia (Rinaca) microcaligula Nässig, 1994

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 15 (3): 347; HT in BMNH, London) — N-Vietnam.
(Etymology: it is the smallest species within that group of Saturnia (Rinaca) species which have formerly been associated with the junior generic synonym Caligula, which may no longer be used. The intention was to preserve the name “Caligula” within the group.) — In the meanwhile the taxon microcaligula is interpreted as a synonym of cachara, see here, Footnote 11.
 
• Saturnia (Rinaca) ngoclinhensis Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 172; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the locality of origin.)

 
• Saturnia (Rinaca) simloides Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 171; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the similarity to the species simla.)

 
• Saturnia (Rinaca) thibetomima Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2018

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 38 (4): 172; HT in Naturkundemuseum Berlin) — Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the similarity to the species thibeta.)

 
• Sinobirma bouyeri Naumann, Nässig & Rougerie, 2012 [in Rougerie, Naumann & Nässig, see here]

(PLoS ONE, San Francisco, 7 (9): 9; HT in SMFL, Frankfurt am Main) — China, Tibet. [urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:53E34B9B-70F5-4648-9C3CB1598B09A71E]
(Etymology: This species is dedicated to Thierry BOUYER, Belgium, who was the first to point at the peculiarity of the Tibetan specimens.)

• Sinobirma myanmarensis Naumann, Nässig & Rougerie, 2012 [in Rougerie, Naumann & Nässig, see here]

(PLoS ONE, San Francisco, 7 (9): 7; HT in MNHU, Berlin) — Myanmar, Kachin. [urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EC7A752B-8A16-4CF4-A735-F2861EF074BE]
(Etymology: Named after the origin of the type material.)

• Solus parvifenestratus gabaidanus Nässig, 1989

(Entomologische  Zeitschrift, Essen, 99 (23): 342; HT in BMNH, London) — Burma.
(Etymology: named after Gabriele-Aida LIEF-KÜPPER, then Frankfurt am Main, Germany, a former girlfriend of the author, in a free combination and variation of her two first names.)

• Solus parvifenestratus sinjaevi Nässig, 1994

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 15 (3): 351; HT in BMNH, London) — N-Vietnam.
(Etymology: named after the collector, Viktor SINIAEV [= SINJAEV], Moscow, Russia.)

• Syssphinx fabiolae Naumann, Nogueira G. & Nässig, 2015

(Shilap Revista de lepidopterología, Madrid, 43 (170): 219; INBUNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México/Mexico City) — Mexico: Jalisco.
(Etymology: named after the wife of the collector [G.N.G.], Fabiola LÒPEZ CUELLAR.)

• Usta arabica Nässig, Naumann & Oberprieler, 2015 (Bunaeinae)

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 36 (1): 36; HT in SMFL, Frankfurt am Main) — Yemen.
(Etymology: named after the distribution on the south-western Arabian Peninsula.)

• Ebbepterote Oberprieler, Nässig & Edwards, 2003

(Invertebrate Systematics, Canberra, 17: 101; type species Darala expansa T. P. Lucas, 1891) — Australia, Queensland.
(Etymology: dedicated to the late Dr. Ebbe Schmidt NIELSEN, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.)

• Eupterote (Eupterote) celebica Nässig, Holloway & Beeke 2011

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 31 (4): 199; HT male in Senckenberg-Museum) — Indonesia: Sulawesi.
(Etymology: named after the old European name of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.)

• Eupterote kageri Nässig, 1989

(Heterocera Sumatrana, Göttingen, 2 (7): 170; HT in BMNH, London) — Indonesia: Sumatra.
(Etymology: dedicated to the late Dr. Stefan KAGER, Nürnberg, Germany.)

• Eupterote (Eupterote) kalliesi Nässig, 2000

(Heterocera Sumatrana, Göttingen, 12 (2): 68; HT male in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Indonesia: Sumatra, Barisan Range.
(Etymology: dedicated to Axel KALLIES, Greifswald, Germany, the collector of the holotype of this diurnal species.) — See also here.
 
• Eupterote (Eupterote) splendens Nässig & Schulze, 2007

(Senckenbergiana biologica, Frankfurt am Main, 87 (2): 190; HT male at present in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Indonesia: Sulawesi, Lore Lindu NP.
(Etymology: named after the splendid appearance of this diurnal species.)
 
• Ganisa floresiaca Nässig, 2009

(Entomofauna, Ansfelden, 30 (25): 458; HT male in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Indonesia: W-Flores, Gunung Ranaka.
(Etymology: named after the island on which the species was found.)
 
• Ganisa pulupuluana Nässig, Ignatyev & Witt, 2009

(Entomofauna, Ansfelden, 30 (25): 456; HT male in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Indonesia: Sulawesi, Tanah Toraja.
(Etymology: named after its type locality, Pulu-Pulu in Torajaland.)
 
• Papuapterote Nässig & Oberprieler, 2008

(Senckenbergiana biologica, Frankfurt am Main, 88 (1): 72; type species Eupterote styx Bethune-Baker, 1908) — New Guinea Island.
(Etymology: The name of the genus is formed from the name of the island where it occurs and the name of the type genus of the family; its gender is to be considered feminine.)
 
• Pseudojana floresina Nässig & Bouyer, 2010

(Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, 30 (4): 207; HT male in Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main) — Flores Island, Indonesia.
(Etymology: The name of the species is formed from the name of the island where it occurs.)

Lepidoptera, Brahmaeidae:

Brahmaea naessigi Naumann & Brosch, 2005 — (Galathea, Berichte des Kreises Nürnberger Entomologen, Nürnberg, 21 (2): 99) — Philippines: Mindanao.

Eupterote naessigi Holloway, 1987 — (The Moths of Borneo, Kuala Lumpur, 3: 64) — Malaysia: Borneo.

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