| FAMILY |
Sphingidae |
| SUBFAMILY |
Macroglossinae
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| GENUS |
Hippotion |
| SPECIES |
comoroana
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| AUTHOR | Clark, 1929 |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Hippotion eson comoroana subsp. nov. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | Comoros, Grande Comore, e.l. v.1921, leg. G. F. Leigh.
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| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES |
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| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, CMNH; Paratypes 1♂, 2♀, CMNH.
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| STATUS |
Synonym of species |
| SYNONYM OF | gracilis |
| COMMENT | A junior subjective synonym of Chaerocampa gracilis Butler, 1875; synonymized by U. Eitschberger (2006: 372). Had been synonymized with Sphinx eson Cramer, 1779 by I. Kitching & J.-M. Cadiou (2000: 48, 115–116). |
| PUBLICATION |
Clark B. P. 1929. Sundry notes on Sphingidae, descriptions of sixteen new species, and of one new genus. - Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11:7–24.
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| PAGINATION |
17–18
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