Taxonomic Information
Placed in genus Rinaca based on Rubinoff and Doorenweerd (2020). Saturnia cachara is a synonym.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- OD: Dictyoploca cachara Moore, 1872. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. Pg. 578.
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. Pg. 24, # 23.
- Pinratana, A. & R.E. Lampe. 1990. Moths of Thailand, Volume 1: Saturniidae. Pl. 37.
- D’ Abrera, B., 1998. Saturniidae Mundi. Saturniid Moths of the World. Part III: 171 pp. Goecke & Evers, Keltern, and Hill House, Melbourne & London. Pg. 34, 35.
- Naumann, S., Löffler, S. and Nässig, W.A., 2012. Revisional notes on the species-group of Saturnia cachara, with description of a new subgenus and a new species (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Nach. Ent. Ver. Apollo, 33, pp.107-128.
- Rubinoff, D. and Doorenweerd, C., 2020. Systematics and biogeography reciprocally illuminate taxonomic revisions in the silkmoth genus Saturnia (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 74(1), pp.1-6.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4941495
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=177786 [accessed 20 April 2020].
Note: Moved to genus Rinaca from Saturnia based on Rubinoff and Doorenweerd (2020) on 12 Dec 2022 (SS).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Rinaca cachara (Moore, 1872) – Cachar Emperor Moth. In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/rinaca-cachara, accessed 2025/11/03.