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Acosmeryx Boisduval, [1875]

Acosmeryx Boisduval, [1875]; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. Hétérocères, 1 : 214, TS: Sphinx anceus
Acosmeryx, Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx (Macroglossina) ; [HMW, 19]

Acosmeryx anceus (Stoll, [1781])

India - New Guinea, Queensland. See [About maps] Sphinx anceus Stoll, [1781]; in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (29-31): 124
Zonilia mixtura Walker, [1865]
Enyo cinnamomea Herrich-Schäffer, [1869]
Acosmeryx daulis Boisduval, [1875]
Acosmeryx anceus, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
Acosmeryx anceus ; Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, 528; [HMW]

Larva on Leea, Cayratia, Cissus, Vitis [MOB3, 149]

A. a. subdentata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Acosmeryx anceus subdentata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; 528
Acosmeryx anceus subdentata, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx anceus subdentata ; [HMW]

Acosmeryx castanea Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Hong Kong conspicua Mell, 1922
kuangtungensis Mell, 1922
distincta Clark, 1928
Acosmeryx castanea, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx castanea ; [HMW]

1152x750 (~102Kb) Oppadake, Okinawa, Ryukyu, Japan, 5-95, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt

Acosmeryx miskini (Murray, 1873)

Australia. See [About maps] Daphnusa miskini Murray, 1873
Acosmeryx miskini, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
Acosmeryx miskini, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx miskini ; [HMW]

Acosmeryx naga (Moore, [1858])

Japan. See [About maps] metanaga Butler, 1879
Acosmeryx naga naga, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]

A. n. hissarica Shchetkin, 1956

Tajikistan, Afghanistan Acosmeryx naga hissarica Shchetkin, 1956; Izv. Akad. nauk Tadzhikskoi SSR 16: 153
?Acosmeryx naga hissarica Shchetkin, 1949; ?Soobshch. Akad. Nauk tadzhik. SSR (19): 24-27
Acosmeryx naga hissarica, Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx naga hissarica ; [HMW]

Larva on Vitis, V. vinifera, Ampelopsis, Actinidia, Saurauia [Tony Pittaway]

Acosmeryx sericeus (Walker, 1856)

AS. See [About maps] anceoides Boisduval, [1875]
rufescens Mell, 1922
Acosmeryx sericeus, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx sericeus rufescens ;
Acosmeryx sericeus ; [HMW]

Acosmeryx shervillii Boisduval, [1875]

India - Sundaland, Philippines, Sulawesi, Hong Kong. See [About maps] Acosmeryx shervillii Boisduval, [1875]; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. Hétérocères, 1 : 217
Acosmeryx cinerea Butler, 1875; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 245
Acosmeryx pseudonaga Butler, 1881; Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 5 : 2
Acosmeryx miskini brooksi Clark, 1922; Proc. New England Zool. Cl. 8 : 11
obliqua Dupont, 1941
obscura Dupont, 1941
Acosmeryx shervillii, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx shervillii ; [HMW]

Larva on Saurauia, Dillenia, Leea, Cayratia, Cissus, Vitis [MOB3, 150]

Acosmeryx sinjaevi Brechlin & Kitching, 1996

N.Vietnam, China (Hainan, Fujian). See [About maps] Acosmeryx sinjaevi Brechlin & Kitching, 1996; Nachr. Ent. Ver. Apollo N.F. 17 (1): 62-65, pl. 2, f. 18, TL: Hainan, Wuzhi Shan, 1500m
Acosmeryx sinjaevi, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Acosmeryx sinjaevi ; [HMW]; Eitschberger, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 77-83

Acosmeryx socrates Boisduval, [1875]

Sulawesi, Philippines. See [About maps] Acosmeryx socrates ; [HMW]

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References:

[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.

[Don Herbison-Evans]

and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans

[HMW]

Kitching & Cadiou, 2000; Hawkmoths of the World; An annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

[MOB3]

Holloway, J. D, 1987; The Moths of Borneo, Part 3; Superfamily Bombycoidea: families Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae; (1998 reprint)

[S. Shuichi Haupt]

e-mail: S. Shuichi Haupt; http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ioeb/biologie/stefan.htm

[Tony Pittaway]

WWW pages; Sphingidae of the Western Palearctic; Saturniidae of the Western Palaearctic; Sphingidae of China (and adjacent regions)

Some related literature:

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

Brechlin & Kitching, 1996

New species of the genera Rhodoprasina Rothchild & Jordan and Acosmeryx Boisduval from Thailand and Vietnam, with a redescription of R. corolla Cadiou & Kitching Nachr. Ent. Ver. Apollo N.F. 17 (1): 51-66

Butler, 1881

Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 5 : i-xii, 1-74, pl. 78-100

Clark, 1922

Twenty-five new Sphingidae Proc. New England Zool. Cl. 8 : 1-23

Eitschberger, 2002

Zur Verbreitung und Genitalmorphologie von Acosmeryx sinjaevi Brechlin & Kitching, 1996 Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 77-83

Shchetkin, 1956

[On the Sphingidae fauna of Tadjikistan (Lepidoptera) I. Towards the systematics and the biology of hawkmoths of the Kendyr (Apocynum) and the Hissar Vine] Izv. Akad. nauk Tadzhikskoi SSR 16: 143-156

Stoll, [1781]

Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (26b-28): 29-90, pl. 305-336 (1780), (29-31): 91-164, pl. 337-372 (1781), (32-32): 165-252, 1-29, pl. 373-400 (1782)

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