Permalink: | POLYAURI |
Higher taxa: | Sphingidae (family)/ Smerinthinae (subfamily)/ Smerinthini (tribe)/ Polyptychus (genus)/ |
Status: | Accepted |
Authorship: | Gehlen, 1934 |
Citation: | Polyptychus auriguttatus, spec. nova |
Original genus: | Polyptychus |
Publication: | Gehlen B. 1934a. Neue afrikanische und asiatische Sphingiden. |
Journal: | Entomologische Zeitschrift |
Volume: | 48 |
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Pagination: | 59–60, fig. 1 |
Had been synonymized with Polyptychopsis marshalli marshalli by Bridges (1993: 20); reinstated as a subspecies of Polyptychopsis marshalli by I. Kitching & J.-M. Cadiou (2000: 62); raised to species status and retransferred to Polyptychus by J. Pierre (2014: 225).
Scientific name | TypeStatus | Gender | Museum | Description | Country | Locality | Publication | URL |
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Polyptychus auriguttatus Gehlen, 1934 | Holotype | ♂ | MfN | Holotype ♂, MfN [description of ♀ by B. Gehlen 1935: 13]. | Congo, the Democratic Republic of the | [Democratic Republic of Congo, Katanga], Belgian Congo, Shaba, Elisabethville [Lubumbashi], "in the upper reaches of the region". | Gehlen B. 1935. Neue afrikanische Sphingiden. page 59–60, fig. 1 |
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Polyptychus auriguttatus Gehlen, 1934 | Congo, the Democratic Republic of the | Katanga | Gehlen B. 1934a. Neue afrikanische und asiatische Sphingiden. page 59 | |
Polyptychus auriguttatus Gehlen, 1934 | Malawi | Joly C., Bernaud D., Pierre J. & Murphy R. J. 2008. Second entomological mission to Malawi. page 13 | ||
Polyptychus auriguttatus Gehlen, 1934 | Zambia | Carcasson R. H. 1968. Revised catalogue of the African Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of the East African species. page 23 |
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Scientific Name | Authorship | Rank | Status | Original Combination |
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Polyptychus meridianus Kernbach, 1963 | Kernbach, 1963 | species | Synonym | Polyptychus meridianus |