Actias sjoqvisti

Hallo!
Actias artemis sjoqvisti Bryk, 1948
Origin Actias sjoqvisti: Russia, Far East, Dalnegorsk
Please tell me, who knows something of this kind of Saturniidae?
Who has reliable information?

Thanks in advance to all
Jevgenij

With these Russian Actias all so confusing.
It turns out that there are some types:
Actias aliena
Actias artemis
Actias sjoqvisti.
Actias gnoma.

Male genitalia Actias artemis and sjoqvisti very different.
Unlike Actias artemis males sjoqvisti no Gnathos - a sign of distinguishing them from each other .

Here's what a male Actias sjoqvisti, who recently hatched. I agree that it is visually very similar to Actias artemis.
But as it looks right Actias aliena? :confused:

Who is explained to the confusion?

Jevgenij

Here is some information about Actias sjoqvisti, as a separate form Actias.

V.V. Zolotuhin, A.V. Chuvilin
On the species compound of the genus Actias Leach, 1815 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) of Russia.

SUMMARY. 3 species of the genus Actias Leach, 1815 (А. artemis (Bremer et Grey, [1853] 1852), А. gnoma (Butler, 1877) and А. sjoqvisti Bryk, 1948) are recorded from Russia and some erroneous previous identifications are corrected. A lectotype of Tropaea mandschurica Staudinger, 1892, is designated here from the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität (Berlin); the taxon is a synonym of A. artemis (Bremer et Grey, [1853] 1852). It is supposed that Actias artemis (Bremer et Grey, [1853] 1852), A. selene (Hübner, 1806) и A. ningpoana Felder, 1862 are 3 distinct species. Study of the type material confirmed the synonymy between Actias artemis ssp. tomariactias Bryk, 1942 and Tropaea gnoma Butler, 1877; the last-named species is removed from the subspecies of A. selene (Hübner, 1806) or A. artemis (Bremer et Grey, [1853] 1852). The taxon Actias artemis sjoqvisti Bryk, 1948 is removed from the subspecies of A. artemis (Bremer et Grey, [1853] 1852) and considered to be a distinct separate species. Its name is not based on a German root and is therefore to be changed to ‘sjoqvisti’ but not ‘sjoeqvisti’. A question on relationship between continental А. sjоqvisti Bryk, 1948, and Japanese А. aliena Butler, 1879 is still open. The genitalic characters and larval features are very similar in both species; probably both are only subspecies of one species. The question is planned to be decided after DNA-analysis of different populations of both taxa is done. The distribution table in the Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia based on the new data obtained is corrected here. Keys for adults, male genitalia and mature larvae are given here as well as distributional maps for all species and figures of genitalic characters.

Eversmannia | Volume 19-20 (2009)

Jevgenij