Published June 1, 1942 | Version v1
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Theretra silhetensis Walker 1856

Authors/Creators

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

Description

3. Theretra silhetensis intersecta (Butler).

Chaerocampa intersecta Butler, Zool. Soc. London, Proc., 623, 1875.

Chaerocampa silhetensis Snellen, Tijdschr. Ent. 22: 65, 1877.

Theretra pinastrina intersecta (Butler) Rothschild and Jordan, Nov. Zoo!. 9, Suppl.: 784, 1903. (B. Preston Clark tells me that since this publication, Jordan decided that silhetensis had preference to pinastrina.)

Agana, Government House, at light, Aug. 9, one specimen.

This hawkmoth is recorded from the Papuan subregion westward to the Philippines, Celebes and Sumba. It was not previously recorded from Guam.

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 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5160080

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Biodiversity

Event date
1936-08-09
Verbatim event date
1936-08-09
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Theretra
Species
silhetensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Theretra silhetensis Walker, 1856 sec. Swezry, 1942