Published October 6, 2025
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Protambulyx strigilis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Swiss Human Institute of Forensic Taphonomy, University Centre of Legal Medicine, CH- 1000, Lausanne, Switzerland & Museum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles, Palais de Rumine, Place de la Riponne 6, CH- 1014, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2. Sphingidae Museum of Czech Republic (SMCR), 261 01 Příbram, Czech Republic & " Le Roc " F. 47310 Laplume, France
Description
Protambulyx strigilis (Linnaeus, 1771)
General distribution. South USA to Argentina including the West Indies.
Distribution in the DR. Widespread throughout the country.
Habitat. The species is generalist. It flies in almost all environments up to elevations of 2000 m.
Host plants. Anacardiaceae.
Notes
Published as part of Hodecek, Jiri & Haxaire, Jean, 2025, A revised and annotated checklist of the hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of the Dominican Republic, with new records and distribution maps of chosen species, pp. 401-427 in Zootaxa 5701 (4) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5701.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17326170
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Protambulyx
- Species
- strigilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Protambulyx strigilis (Linnaeus, 1771) sec. Hodecek & Haxaire, 2025