Published June 1, 1942 | Version v1
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Deilephila placida subsp. placida placida (Walker

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Honolulu

Description

2.Deilephila placida placida (Walker).

Darapsa placida Walker, List. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 8: 186, 1856.

Deilephila placida placida (Walker) Rothschild and Jordan, Nov. Zool. 9, Suppl.: 512, 1903.

Agana, April 28, in Government House, Swezey; Tumon, June 5, at light, Swezey.

This hawkmoth occurs in Andamans, Singapore, Sumatra, Philippines, and east to the New Hebrides. It is now recorded for the first time from Guam. The identification is by B. Preston Clark.

Notes

Published as part of Swezry, O. H., 1942, Sphingidae Of Guam, pp. 39-40 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5160080

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Event date
1936-04-28 , 1936-06-05
Verbatim event date
1936-04-28 , 1936-06-05
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Deilephila
Species
placida
Taxon rank
subSpecies