Daphnis nerii Linnaeus 1758
Description
Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758)
Plate 2, Fig. 32
Material examined. PAKISTAN, [Islamabad,] NARC, August, 1999, Ather Rafi; as previous except, 19. xi.
2003; as previous except 4. x. 2010, Elizabeth Stephen; as previous except, 1. xii. 2010, Saeed Khan; as previous except, 16. vi. 2011, Abdul Khaliq; [Sindh,] Malir, Karachi, 13. iii. 1958, S. K. Hussain.
Remarks. This species was recorded in Pakistan from Peshawar by Chaudhry et al. (1966) and from Faisalabad and Sialkot by Mehmood et al. (1996). The core distribution of D. nerii is Africa, the southern Mediterranean region and the Middle East, from where it extends east through South and South East Asia to southeast China, the Philippines, Borneo and Sumatra. It occurs as a migrant/vagrant in Europe and Central Asia, and has also colonized the southern islands of Japan (including Chichijima), Guam, Saipan and Hawaii (Pittaway, 2013; Pittaway & Kitching, 2013).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Daphnis
- Species
- nerii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Daphnis nerii Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Rafi, Sultan, Kitching, Pittaway, Markhasiov, Khan & Naz, 2014
References
- Chaudhry, G. U., Chaudhry, M. I. & Khan, S. M. (1966) Survey of Insect Fauna of Forests of Pakistan. Final Technical Report. Vol. 1. Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar, West Pakistan, 167 pp.
- Mehmood, K., Yousuf, M. & Naeem, M. (1996) The Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. Entomologist's Record, 108, 211 - 215.
- Pittaway, A. R. & Kitching, I. J. (2013) Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. Available from: http: // tpittaway. tripod. com / china / china. htm (accessed 1 December 2013)