Magnificus regius (Staudinger, 1896: 301) (Fig. 6a (HT)) = Phassus regius rubellus (Bang-Haas, 1939) (Fig. 6b (HT), 6c) Type locality: China, Xizang province, Kukunoor [Kuku Noor lake]. Type depository: not located, although the Staudinger collection is in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Generic placement: Grehan et al. (2021). Distinguishing features: Mottled forewings with prominent whitish-brown postdiscal transverse band extending from posterior margin and bifurcating near the outer costal margin and apex (Grehan et al. 2021).

Published as part of Grehan, John R., Saldaitis, Aidas, Prozorov, Alexey M., Yakovlev, Roman V., Müller, Günter C., Ignatev, Nikolai, Mielke, Carlos G. C., Xu, Zhen-Bang, Duan, Yang & Dūda, Juozas, 2025, Three new species of the ghost moth Magnificus Yan from China and India (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae), pp. 552-572 in Zootaxa 5679 (4) on page 555, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5679.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/16985959