About Actias ningpoana Felder, 1862
Actias ningpoana, commonly known as the Chinese moon moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Saturniidae. It was first described in 1862 by the father-and-son team of entomologists Cajetan and Rudolf Felder. This species is quite large, and bears long, curved tails on its hindwings. Many closely related species of the same genus live across Asia, and the Luna moth (A. luna), native to eastern Canada and the United States, is a close relative of Actias ningpoana. Its confirmed documented range includes multiple areas of China: Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Sichuan, and Yunnan, as documented by Zhu & Wang in 1996. It is also found in the Russian far east, as documented by Zolotuhin & Chuvilin in 2009, and in the Western Ghats region of India.
