''Brahmaea'' is a genus 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 ...

s 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 ...

. ''Acanthobrahmaea'', ''Brahmidia'', and ''Brachygnatha'' are synonyms. ''Acanthobrahmaea'' has sometimes been considered a subgenus, describing an endemic relict species that only occurs in the vicinity of the Monte Vulture in Italy.

Species

*''Brachygnatha diastemata'', found in

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(Shaanxi).Zhang & Yang, 1993 *''

Brahmaea ardjoeno ''Brahmaea ardjoeno'' is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Kalis in 1934. It is found on Java and Borneo and possibly in the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Phi ...

'' (Kalis, 1934) *''

Brahmaea celebica ''Brahmaea celebica'' is a species of moth of the family Brahmaeidae first described by Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus in 1939. It is found on Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Su ...

'' Toxopeus, 1939 *''

Brahmaea certhia ''Brahmaea certhia'', the Sino-Korean owl moth, is a moth from the family Brahmaeidae, the Brahmin moths. It is found in the Korean Peninsula and China. The wingspan is to . The larvae feed on privet A privet is a flowering plant in th ...

'' (Fabricius, 1793) *''

Brahmaea christophi ''Brahmaea christophi'' is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Staudinger in 1885. It is found in the humid forests of Talish on the territory of Azerbaijan and Iran. It was named by Otto Staudinger in honor of Hugo Theodor C ...

'' Staudinger, 1879 *''

Brahmaea hearseyi ''Brahmaea hearseyi '' is a species of moth of the family Brahmaeidae. It is found in N.E. Himalaya, Burma, Western China, Sundaland and the Philippines. The wingspan ranges up to 200 mm. The larvae feed on ''Ligustrum'', ''Syringa'', and ...

'' (White, 1862) *''

Brahmaea japonica ''Brahmaea japonica'', the Japanese owl moth, is a species of moth of the Brahmaeidae family native to Japan. Description The wingspan is 80–115 mm. The male is smaller than the female. The wings are wide with a rounded outer edge. The ...

'' (Butler, 1873) *''

Brahmaea ledereri ''Brahmaea ledereri'' is a species of moth of the family Brahmaeidae first described by Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1873. It is found in Turkey.Brahmaea litserra ''Brahmaea litserra'' is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Hui-Ling Hao, Xiu-Rong Zhang and Ji-Kun Yang in 2002. It is found in Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is Chin ...

'' H.L. Hao, X.R. Zhang & J.K. Yang, 2002 *''

Brahmaea loeffleri ''Brahmaea loeffleri'' is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Stefan Naumann and Ulrich Brosch in 2005. It is found on Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At ...

'' Naumann & Brosch, 2005 *''

Brahmaea naessigi ''Brahmaea naessigi'' is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Stefan Naumann and Ulrich Brosch in 2005. It is found on Mindanao Mindanao ( ) ( Jawi: مينداناو) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after ...

'' Naumann & Brosch, 2005 *''

Brahmaea paukstadtorum ''Brahmaea paukstadtorum'' is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Stefan Naumann and Ulrich Brosch in 2005. It is found on Negros Island Negros is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a ...

'' Naumann & Brosch, 2005 *''

Brahmaea tancrei ''Brahmaea tancrei'', the Siberian owl moth, is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Jules Léon Austaut in 1896. It is found from Russia (Amur, Siberia and in the Russian Far East) to Korea and China and south to Indonesia. Adu ...

'' (Austaut, 1896) *''

Brahmaea wallichii ''Brahmaea wallichii'', also known as the owl moth, is a moth from the family Brahmaeidae, the Brahmin moths, and one of its largest species. It is found in the north of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, and Japan. The owl moth is noct ...

'' (Gray, 1831) *''

Brahmidia polymehntas ''Brahmidia polymehntas'' is a moth in the Brahmaeidae family. It was described by Hui-Ling Hao, Xiu-Rong Zhang and Ji-Kun Yang in 2002. It is found in the Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal pr ...

'' H.L. Hao, X.R. Zhang & J.K. Yang, 2002

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