Actias australovietnama Brechlin, 2000

Actias australovietnama Brechlin, 2000 is a species known only from South Center of Vietnam. The species was original described from Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, Kon Tum Province. Now it was recorded from further localities in South Vietnam in Dak Lak and Lam Dong Province. The species is close to its related species Actias angulocaudata, that found from Hubei, China.
This is maybe the first time the species was photographed in nature.

Actias australovietnama Brechlin, 2000 photographed by Cuong Do

Loepa diffundata Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2008

Loepa diffundata Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2008 was changed and described from the subspecies L. katinka diversiocellata. And in the paper, authors also proposed that L. diversiocellata is synonym of L. katinka. Loepa diffundata was recorded in South East Asia and is a wide distributed species.
In Vietnam, the species found in Lam Dong, Thua Thien Hue, Vinh Phuc and Hoang Lien, Lai Chau-Lao Cai. They are active at late after middle night, sometime nearly morning and found in the good forests with elevation about more than 700m.

Loepa diffundata Naumann, Nässig & Löffler, 2008 - phogographed by Cuong Do

Samia vuvanlieni Naumann, Peigler & Läffle, 2014

A new described species of Saturniidae in 2014, the species is large size moth that found from Bidoup National Park, Lam Dong Province, they also were recorded in Kon Tum and Da Nang Province. The species is largest moth of the genus, two smaller related species are S. watsoni and S. formosana. Mature form found in high elevation habitat, about more than 1500m.

Samia vuvanlieni Naumann, Peigler & Läffle, 2014 - dorsal view of male

Checklist of Saturniidae of Vietnam

1. Actias australovietnama Brechlin, 2000
2. Actias chapae Mell, 1950
3. Actias dubernardi (Oberthür, 1897)
4. Actias maenas (Doubleday, 1847)
5. Actias rhodopneuma Röber, 1925
6. Actias selene (Hübner, "1806-1823")
7. Actias sinensis Walker, 1855
8. Antheraea (A.) frithi Moore, 1858
9. Antheraea (A.) larissoides Bouvier, 1928 (unclear status)
10. Antheraea (A.) pedunculata Bouvier, 1936 (unclear status)
11. Antheraea (A.) pernyi (Guérin-Méneville, 1855) (unclear status)
12. Antheraea (A.) platessa W. Rothschild, 1903
13. Antheraea (A.) yamamai titan Mell, 1958 (status needs investigated)
14. Antheraea (Ao.) chengtuana Watson, 1923
15. Antheraea (Ao.) mezops Bryk, 1944
16. Archaeoattacus edwardsii (White, 1859)
17. Attacus atlas (Linnaeus, 1758)
18. Cricula jordani Bryk, 1944
19. Cricula trifenestrata (Helfer, 1837)
20. Cricula vietnama Brechlin, Nässig & Naumann, 1999
21. helferi-group (sensu Nässig, 1991)
22. Lemaireia inexspectata Nässig, 1996
23. Lemaireia luteopeplus aureopeplus Nässig & Holloway, 1988
24. Loepa anthera Jordan, 1911
25. Loepa diversiocellata Bryck, 1944
26. Loepa miranda Atkinson in Moore, 1865
27. Loepa roseomarginata Brechlin, 1997
28. Loepa sikkima Atkinson in Moore, 1866 ("1865")
29. Rhodinia grigauti Le Moult, 1933 (unclear status)
30. Rhodinia rudloffi Brechlin, 2001
31. Salassa fansipana Brechlin, 1997
32. Salassa lemaii Le Moult, 1933
33. Salassa tonkiniana Le Moult, 1933
34. Samia canningi Hutton, 1859
35. Samia kohlli Naumann & Peigler, 2001
36. Samia vuvanlieni Naumann, Peigler & Läffle, 2014
37. Samia wangi Naumann & Peigler, 2001
38. Saturnia (Rinaca) cachara (Moore, 1872)
39. Saturnia (Rinaca) lesoudieri (Le Moult, 1933)
40. Saturnia (Rinaca) microcaligula Nassig, 1994
41. Saturnia (Rinaca) naumanni Brechlin, 2001
42. Saturnia (Rinaca) simla (Westwood, 1847)
43. Saturnia (Rinaca) thibeta (Westwood, 1853)
44. Saturnia (Saturnia) pyretorum Westwood, 1847
45. Solus parvifenestratus Bryk, 1944