Notes on taxa of the Salassa lemaii group (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) with the description of a new species from Mizoram, India

"A new species of the genus Salassa Moore, 1859 (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, Salassinae) is described from Mizoram in north-eastern India: Salassa mizorama, n. sp. It is compared with its closest relatives in the genus, the species around Salassa lemaii Le Moult, 1933. So far, the new species is known only from males; females and preimaginal instars remain unknown. An overview about the group is given, and one recently described subspecies, Salassa lemaii chiangmaiensis Brechlin & Meister, 2009 is synonymized with its nominotypical species. Some shorter general notes on the genus Salassa are given, to clarify some taxonomic problems. Salassa kitchingi Brechlin, 2010, is found to be a synonym of the long-known sub-Himalayan species Salassa lola Westwood, 1847 whose type locality was wrongly interpreted."