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Pseudosphinx Burmeister, 1856
Pseudosphinx Burmeister, 1856; Abh. naturf. Ges. Halle 3: 68, TS: Sphinx tetrio
Macrosila Lucas, 1857; (preocc.)
Pseudosphinx ; Druce, 1881, in Godman & Salvin, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 22
Pseudosphinx (Macroglossinae) ; [MABL]
Pseudosphinx (Dilophonotina) ; [HMW, 18]

Pseudosphinx tetrio (Linnaeus, 1771)
Texas, Florida, Mississippi, CA, SA, Ecuador. See [About maps] Frangipani hornworm
Sphinx tetrio Linnaeus, 1771; Mantissa Plant. 2: 538, TL: "America mer."
Sphinx hasdrubal Cramer, [1780]; Uitl. Kapellen 3 (17-21): pl. 246 (1779), fig. F, (index) 175,, TL: Surinam, Curacao
Sphinx plumieriae Fabricius, 1793
Pseudosphinx obscura Butler, 1877; Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 9: 610, TL: Honduras, New Grenada, Brazil
albina Gehlen, 1941
suelii Moosburg, 1996
lucia Moosburg, 1998
= ; [HMW]
Pseudosphinx tetrio, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Pseudosphinx tetrio, The Moths of Southeastern Arizona [Bruce Walsh]
Pseudosphinx tetrio, Lepidoptera of French Antilles [Pierre Zagatti]
Pseudosphinx tetrio ; Godman & Salvin, 1881, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 22; [HMW]; [MABL]

Larva on Euphorbiaceae, Plumeria rubra, Jasminum [MNA21]



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References:
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automaticly generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BAMONA]
Paul Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray Stanford, Michael Pogue; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node
[BCA]
electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[Bruce Walsh]
Bruce Walsh; e-mail: Bruce Walsh; The Moths of Southeastern Arizona; Butterflies of Southeastern Arizon
[HMW]
Kitching & Cadiou, 2000; Hawkmoths of the World; An annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
[MABL]
Manuel A. Balcázar Lara; Palomillas de México
[MNA21]
Ronald W. Hodges, 1971; The Moths of America North of Mexico; Fascicle 21; SPHINGOIDEA
[Pierre Zagatti]
WWW pages; Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles; e-mail: Pierre Zagatti


Some related literature:
Butler, 1877
Revision of the Hereocerous Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidae Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 9: 511-644, pl. XC-XCIV [90-94]
Cramer, [1780]
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)
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. 1-64
Linnaeus, 1771
Mantissa Plantarum altera Generum editionis Vi & Specierum editionis II Mantissa Plant. 2: -,[iv], 142-510, + Regni Animalis Appendix 511-552


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