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Smerinthinae
- Pachysphinx Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
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Pachysphinx Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.): 339, TS: Smerinthus modesta Harris
Pachysphinx ; Eitschberger, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 159
Pachysphinx (Smerinthinae) ; [MABL]
Pachysphinx (Smerinthini) ; [HMW, 16]
NA. See [About maps]
Modest Sphinx
Big Poplar Sphinx
Smerinthus modesta Harris, 1839; Amer. J. Sci. Arts, 36 (2): 29: 292, TL: Massachusetts(?)
Smerinthus princeps Walker, 1856; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 255
Smerinthus populicola Boisduval, [1875]; Hist. nat. Insectes (Spéc. gén. Lépid Héterocères) 8: 22-23, TL: Canada
Smerinthus cablei Reizenstein, 1881; Scribner's Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 22: 864, TL: Spanish Fort (near New Orleans), Louisiana
Pachysphinx modesta borealis Clark, 1929; Proc. New England Zool. Cl. 11: 18, TL: McCreary, Manitoba
Pachysphinx modesta, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Pachysphinx modesta, Lynn Scott's Lepidoptera Images [Lynn Scott]
Pachysphinx modesta ; [HMW]; [MABL]; Eitschberger, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 159, 180-182 (gen.)
Larva on
Salix,
Populus [MNA21]
California - Arizona - Colorado, Texas, Washington. See [About maps]
Western Poplar Sphinx
Smerinthus modestus var. occidentalis H. Edwards, 1875; Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6: 92, TL: San Diego, California
Pachysphinx occidentalis, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Pachysphinx occidentalis, The Moths of Southeastern Arizona [Bruce Walsh]
Pachysphinx occidentalis ; [HMW]; Eitschberger, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 160, 186 (gen.), pl. XI, f. 2
Larva on
Populus,
Salix [MNA21]
Mexico, ...?
Pachysphinx occidentalis occidentalis ; [MABL]
Mexico, ...?
Pachysphinx modesta peninsularis Cary, 1963; Ann. Carn. Mus. 36: 198-199, TL: San José del Cabo, Baja California, Mexico
Pachysphinx occidentalis peninsularis ; [HMW]; [MABL]
Pachysphinx (?occidentalis/?imperator) peninsularis ; Eitschberger, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 160
Arizona. See [About maps]
Smerinthus imperator Strecker, [1878]; Lep. Rhopal. Het. (14): 125, pl. 14, f. 3, TL: Arizona
= Pachysphinx occidentalis (Edwards, [1875]); [HMW]
Pachysphinx modesta imperator f. imperator Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.): 342-343 [gen.vern.], TL: Arizona, Phoenix
Pachysphinx modesta imperator f. kunzei Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.): 343, TL: [gen.aest.];Arizona, Phoenix
= Pachysphinx occidentalis (Edwards, [1875]); [HMW]
Pachysphinx imperator ; Eitschberger, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 159, 183-185 (gen.), pl. XI, f. 1
Pachysphinx modesta regalis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; REF#c: 343, TL: Jalisco, Mexico
Pachysphinx occidentalis regalis ; [HMW]
Pachysphinx imperator regalis ; Eitschberger, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 159
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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
- [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)
- [LAMAS-NEO]
- Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
- [Lynn Scott]
- Moths of the Ottawa Area; Lynn Scott's Lepidoptera Images
- [MABL]
- Manuel A. Balcázar Lara; Palomillas de México
- [MNA21]
- Ronald W. Hodges, 1971; The Moths of America North of Mexico; Fascicle 21; SPHINGOIDEA
- Some related literature:
- Boisduval, [1875]
- Histoire naturelle des Insectes, Species general des Lépidoptères Héterocères. Tome Premier. Sphingides, Sesiides, Castnides. Vol. 8. Paris, France. pp 4 & 568 pp.
Hist. nat. Insectes (Spéc. gén. Lépid Héterocères) 8: 568pp
- Cary, 1963
- Reports on the Margaret M. Cary and Carnegie Museum Expedition to Baja California, Mexico, 1961. 2. The Family Sphingidae
Ann. Carn. Mus. 36: 193-204
- Clark, 1929
- Sundry notes on Sphingidae, descriptions of sixteen new forms and of one new genus
Proc. New England Zool. Cl. 11: 7-24
- Eitschberger, 2002
- Revidierte Checkliste der Gattungen Amorpha Hübner, [1819], Laothoe Fabricius, 1807, Pachysphinx Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 und Phyllosphingia Swinhoe, 1897
Neue Ent. Nachr. 53: 151-195
- Harris, 1839
- Descriptive catalogue of the North American insects belonging to the Linnean genus Sphinx in the cabinet of Thaddeus Willian Harris
Amer. J. Sci. Arts, 36 (2): 282-320
- Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae
Novit. Zool. 9 (Suppl.): 1-972, 67pls
- 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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