| FAMILY |
Sphingidae |
| SUBFAMILY |
Smerinthinae
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| GENUS |
Neopolyptychus |
| SPECIES |
commodus
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| AUTHOR | (Jordan, 1930) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Polyptychus serrator commodus subsp. nov. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | [Uganda], Victoria Nyanza, Sesse Islands, Lutoboka Bugalla, larva at forest edge, pupated, 02.i.1913, e.l. 20.i.1913, leg. G. D. H. Carpenter.
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| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES |
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| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, type no LEP 23, OUMNH; Neallotype ♀, designated by Carcasson (1968: 19), BMNH.
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| STATUS |
Synonym of species |
| SYNONYM OF | pygarga |
| COMMENT | A junior subjective synonym of Dewitzia pygarga Karsch, 1891; synonymized by K. Kernbach (1957: 191). Had been raised to species status by J. Pierre (2001: 163) and later synonymized with Dewitzia pygarga by J. Pierre (2004: 166). |
| PUBLICATION |
Jordan K. 1930. Description of new Sphingidae and remarks on some others. - Novitates Zoologicae 36(1):1-5.
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| PAGINATION |
1, figs 1, 2
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