Archaeoattacus edwardsii White

Fukuda (2001) recorded Archaeoattacus edwardsii, the mainland Asian sister-species of staudingeri, from lowland coastal forest at Miri in Sarawak. He considered the material to belong to ssp. malayanus Kurosawa & Kishida from Peninsular Malaysia. He illustrated the material, and it is correctly identified as malayanus (W.A. Nässig, pers. comm.). However, Beck & Nässig (2008) and Nässig, Naumann & Rougerie (2010) have cast doubt on the provenance of the material or, alternatively, its native status, and therefore on the validity of this record from Borneo. The two taxa are therefore probably only sympatric in Peninsular Malaysia. It has now been established on DNA barcode evidence (Nässig & Naumann, in press) that all three named taxa merit specific status, with edwardsii (Indian Himalaya, Nepal, Bhutan) being sister to malayanus (N.E. India (Khasi Hills), W. China to Peninsular Malaysia) and staudingeri.