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Pergesa Walker, 1856

Rhynocholaba Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; , TS: Sphinx acteus Cramer
Pergesa (Choercampina) ; [HMW, 19]

Pergesa acteus (Cramer, [1779])

Hong Kong, Japan, Oriental Tropics, Moluccas. See [About maps] Sphinx acteus Cramer, [1779]; Uitl. Kapellen 3 (17-21): 93
Panacra butleri Rothschild, 1894; Novit. Zool. 1 (1) : 80 (preocc.), TL: Asia
Pergesa acteus, Sphigidae of China (and adjacent regions) [Tony Pittaway]
Rhyncholaba acteus ; Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, 789
Pergesa acteus ; [HMW]

Larva on Alocasia, Amorphophallus, arisaema, Caladium, Colocasia, Dieffenbachia, Begonia, Commelina, Leea, Cissus, Vitis [MOB3, 180]

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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.

[BHL]

The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!

[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)

[Tony Pittaway]

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

Some related literature:

Cramer, [1779]

Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 3 (17-21): 1-104, pl. 193-252 (1779), (22): 105-128, pl. 253-264 ([1780]), (23-24): 129-176, pl. 265-288 (1780)

Rothschild, 1894

Notes on Sphingidae, with descriptions of new species Novit. Zool. 1 (1) : 65-98, pl. 5-7

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