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Proserpinus Hübner, [1819]
Proserpinus Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (9): 132, TS: Sphinx oenotherae
Pterogon Boisduval, [1828]; Eur. Lepid. Index Meth. 1: 32
Pteropogon Meigen, 1829; Syst. Beschr. eur. Schmett. 1: 129
Lepisesia Grote, 1865; Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 5 : 38, TS: Macroglossa flavofasciata
Pogocolon Boisduval, [1875]; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. Hétérocères, 1 : 314, TS: Sphinx gaurae
Dieneces Butler, 1881; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 8 : 308, TS: Pterogon clarkiae
Proserpinus, Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic [Tony Pittaway]
 Proserpinus ; Druce, 1881, in Godman & Salvin, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 5
Proserpinus (Macroglossinae) ; [MABL]
Proserpinus (Macroglossina) ; [HMW, 18]
Proserpinus clarkiae (Boisduval, 1852)
California - British Columbina, Alberta, Idaho, Colorado, Mexico, ...?. See [About maps] Clark's Day Sphinx
Pterogon clarkiae Boisduval, 1852; Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (2) 10 : 318, TL: California
Lepisesia victoria Grote, 1874; Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 2 : 147, TL: British Columbia
Proserpinus clarkiae, Pacific Northwest Moths [PNWM]
Proserpinus clarkiae, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Proserpinus clarkiae, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
 Proserpinus clarkiae ; [HMW]; [MABL]

Larva on Clarkia unguiculata Osborne, 2000, J. Lep. Soc. 53 (4): 170

Proserpinus flavofasciata (Walker, 1856)
NA. See [About maps] Yellow-banded Day Sphinx
Macroglossa flavofasciata Walker, 1856; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 87, TL: St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay, Canada
Macroglossa ulalume Strecker, [1878]; Lep. Rhopal. Het. (15): 135, pl. 15, fig. 3, TL: Oregon
Lepisesia ulalume var. rachel Bruce, 1901; Ent. News 12 (1) : 19, TL: Colorado
Proserpinus flavofasciata, Pacific Northwest Moths [PNWM]
Proserpinus flavofasciata, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Proserpinus flavofasciata, E.H. Strickland Ent. Mus, U of [ALBERTA]
Proserpinus flavofasciata, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
 Proserpinus flavofasciata ; [HMW]

Larva on Epilobium, Rubus parviflorus [MNA21]

Proserpinus gaurae (Smith, 1797)
Florida - Texas, Missouri. See [About maps] Sphinx gaurae Smith, 1797; in Smith & Abbot, Nat. Hist. Rarer Lepid. Ins. Georgia 1: 61, pl. 31, TL: Georgia
Proserpinus circae H. Edwards, 1882; Papilio 2 (1) : 9, TL: Georgia
Proserpinus deceptiva Barnes & Benjamin, 1924; Contr. nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Am. 5 (3) : 101, TL: Harris Co., Texas
Proserpinus gaurae, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Proserpinus gaurae, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
 Proserpinus gaurae ; [HMW]

Larva on Oenothera, Epilobium [MNA21]

Proserpinus juanita (Strecker, 1876)
Texas - Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, CA. See [About maps] Pterogon juanita Strecker, 1876; Lep. Rhopal. Het. (13): 112, pl. 13, fig. 6, TL: on the banks of Rio Grande, Mexico or Southwest Texas
Proserpinus juanita oslari Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.) : 610, TL: Verde River, Arizona
Proserpinus juanita, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Proserpinus juanita, E.H. Strickland Ent. Mus, U of [ALBERTA]
Proserpinus juanita, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
 Proserpinus juanita ; [HMW]; [MABL]

Larva on Oenothera, Epilobium [MNA21]

Proserpinus proserpina (Pallas, 1772)
NAF, SEU, CEU, tr, Turkestan. See [About maps] Helokkikiitäjä Nachtkerzenschwärmer Sphinx de l'épilobe törpeszender
Sphinx proserpina Pallas, 1772; Spicilegia Zool. ...9: 26, pl. 2, f. 7
Sphinx oenotherae [Schiffermüller], 1775; Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend: 43
= ; [HMW]
Sphinx schiffermilleri Fuessly, 1779; Mag. f. Liebhaber d. Ent. 2: 69
= ; [HMW]
francofurtana (Fabricius, 1781)
= ; [HMW]
Proserpinus aenotheroides Butler, [1876]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 (4) : 621
= ; [HMW]
maxima (Grum-Grshimailo, 1887)
= ; [HMW]
japetus (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890)
= ; [HMW]
brunnea (Geest, 1903)
= ; [HMW]
attenuata Schultz, 1904
= ; [HMW]
grisea Rebel, 1910
= ; [HMW]
infumata Closs, 1911
= ; [HMW]
schmidti Schmidt, 1914
= ; [HMW]
Proserpinus proserpina gigas Oberthür, 1922; Étud. Lépid. Comp. 19 (1): 128, TL: Timahdit, Middle Atlas, Morocco
= ; [HMW]
Proserpinus proserpina, Lepidoptera collection [SZMN]
Proserpinus proserpina, Larvae of North-European Lepidoptera [Kimmo Silvonen]
Proserpinus proserpina, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Proserpinus proserpina, Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic [Tony Pittaway]
Proserpinus proserpina, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Proserpinus proserpina, UK Moths [Ian Kimber]
 Proserpinus aenetheroides[sic] ; (spell.?)
Proesrpinus proserpina ; [HMW]

Larva on Epilobium hirsutum, E. angustifolium, E. palustre, E. rosmarinifolium, E. montanum, Oenothera biennis, Lythrum salicaria [BSW]

Proserpinus terlooi H. Edwards, 1875
Mexico, Arizona. See [About maps] Proserpinus terlooi H. Edwards, 1875; Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6 : 90, TL: near Mazatlan, Mexico
mooseri (Clark, 1937)
Proserpinus terlooii, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Proserpinus terlooii, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Proserpinus terlooii, The Moths of Southeastern Arizona [Bruce Walsh]
 Proserpinus terlooi ; Godman & Salvin, 1881, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 5; [MABL]
Proserpinus terlooii ; [HMW]

Larva on Boerhaavia coccinea [MNA21]

Proserpinus vega (Dyar, 1903)
New Mexico, Mexico?, .... See [About maps] Lepisesia vega Dyar, 1903; Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 (4) : 291, TL: Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico
Proserpinus vega, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Proserpinus vega, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Proserpinus vega, The Moths of Southeastern Arizona [Bruce Walsh]
 Proserpinus vega ; [HMW]

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References:
[ALBERTA]
University of Alberta, E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum; Browse Entomology Collection
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BAMONA]
Opler, Pavulaan, Stanford & Pogue; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node
[BCA]
electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[BSW]
de Freina & Witt, 1987; Die Bombyces und Sphinges der Westpalearktis; ISBN 3-926285-00-1
[Bruce Walsh]
Bruce Walsh; e-mail: Bruce Walsh; The Moths of Southeastern Arizona; Butterflies of Southeastern Arizona
[HBN]
Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2
[HMW]
Kitching & Cadiou, 2000; Hawkmoths of the World; An annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
[Ian Kimber]
http://www.ukmoths.force9.co.uk/
[Kimmo Silvonen]
Espoo, Finland; Kimmo's Lep Site
[LAMAS-NEO]
Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
[MABL]
Manuel A. Balcázar Lara; Palomillas de México
[MBE]
Moths and Butteflies of Europe; Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[MNA21]
Ronald W. Hodges, 1971; The Moths of America North of Mexico; Fascicle 21; SPHINGOIDEA
[MPG]
North American Moth Photographers Group
[PNWM]
Pacific Northwest Moths
[SZMN]
Lepidoptera; Siberian Zoological Museum
[Tony Pittaway]
WWW pages; Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic; Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic; Sphingidae of China (and adjacent regions)

Some related literature:
Barnes & Benjamin, 1924
Notes and new species Contr. nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Am. 5 (3) : 99-199
Boisduval, 1852
Lépidoptères de la Californie Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (2) 10 : 275-324
Boisduval, [1875]
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres Hétérocéres. Tome Premier. Sphingides, Sésiides, Castnides Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. Hétérocères, 1 : 1-568, pl. 1-11
Bruce, 1901
A New Variety of Lepisesia Ent. News 12 (1) : 19
Butler, [1876]
Descriptions of several new species of Sphingidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 (4) : 621-623
Butler, 1881
An account of the Sphinges and Bombyces collected by Lord Walsingham in North America during the years 1871-1872 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 8 : 306-318
Dyar, 1903
New North American Lepidoptera with notes on larvae Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 (4) : 290-297
H. Edwards, 1875
Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, No. 11. - List of the Sphingidae of California and Adjacent Districts, with Descriptions of New Species Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6 : 86-94
H. Edwards, 1882
New species of Heterocera Papilio 2 (1) : 9-15
Druce in Godman & Salvin, 1881; Godman & Salvin, 1881
Biologia Centrali-Americana; or Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna of Mexico and Central America. Zoology. Lepidoptera. Heterocera Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 1-490, 3: pl. 1-101
Grote, 1865
Notes on Cuban Sphingidae Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 5 : 33-84
Grote, 1874
Notes on American Lepidoptera with Descriptions of twenty-one New Species Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 2 : 145-163
Hübner, [1819]
Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816), (2): 17-32 (1819), (3): 33-48 (1819), (4): 49-64 (1819), (5): 65-80 (1819), (6): 81-96 (1819), (7): 97-112 (1819), (8): 113-128 (1819), (9): 129-144 (1819), (10): 145-160 (1819), (11): 161-176 (1819), (12): 177-192 (1820), (13): 193-208 (1820), (14): 209-224 (1821), (15): 225-240 (1821), (16): 241-256 (1821), (17): 257-272 (1823), (18): 273-288 (1823), (19): 289-304 (1823), (20): 305-320 (1825), (21): 321-336 (1825), (22): 337-352 (1825), (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])
Meigen, 1829
Systematische Beschreibung der europäischen Schmetterlinge; mit Abbildungen auf Steintafeln Syst. Beschr. eur. Schmett. 1: VI+170, pl. 1-42 (?1828-1829)
Oberthür, 1922
Les Lépidoptères du Maroc Étud. Lépid. Comp. 19 (1): 13-402, (2): pl. 530-546
Osborne, 2000
Additional notes on Properpinus clarkiae and Arctonotus lucidus life histories from the Pacific coast of North America J. Lep. Soc. 53 (4): 170-172
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.) : 1-813, : 815-972, pl. 1-67
Strecker, 1876; Strecker, [1878]
Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic, with descriptions and colored illustrations Lep. Rhopal. Het. (1): 1-7, pl. 1 (1872), (2): 9-15, pl. 2 (1873), (3): 17-24, pl. 3 (1873), (4): 25-32, pl. 4 (1873), (5): 33-43, pl. 5 (1873), (6): 45-50, pl. 6 (1873), (7): 51-60, pl. 7 (1873), (8): 61-70, pl. 8 (1874), (9): 71-80, pl. 9 (1874), (10): 81-94, pl. 10 (1874), (11): 95-100, pl. 11 (1874), (12): 101-108, pl. 12 (1875), (13): 109-123, pl. 13 (1876), (14): 125-134, pl. 14 (1878), (15): 135-143, pl. 15 (1878)
Walker, 1856
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 1-271 (1856)

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