''Brahmaea celebica'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Brahmaeidae Brahmaeidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are ...

first described by

Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus (1894 - April 21, 1951) was a Java-born, Dutch nationality lepidopterist. He mainly worked in Indonesia then known as the Dutch East Indies and specialised in the families Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae. Wikispecies provides ...

in 1939. It is found on

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

in Indonesia.

Taxonomy

''Brahmaea celebica'' was formerly treated as a subspecies of '' Brahmaea hearseyi''., 2005: Zur Verbreitung der ''hearseyi''-Gruppe (Lepidoptera; Brahmaeidae: Brahmaea Walker, 1855) in Indonesien und auf den Philippinen. ''Galathea'' 21 (2): 97-104.

References

Brahmaeidae Moths described in 1939 Taxa named by Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus {{Bombycoidea-stub