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Platysphinx bourkei Trimen, 1910

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Higher taxa: Sphingidae (family)/  Smerinthinae (subfamily)/  Smerinthini (tribe)/  Platysphinx (genus)/ 
Status:Synonym, the accepted name is Platysphinx piabilis
Authorship:Trimen, 1910
Citation:Platysphinx bourkei, sp. nov.
Original genus:Platysphinx
Publication:Trimen R. 1910. Description of a new smerinthine hawkmoth from South Africa.
Journal:Entomologist's Monthly Magazine
Volume:(2) 21
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Pagination:209–210
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9270871
Taxonomic note:

A junior subjective synonym of Ambulyx piabilis Distant, 1897; synonymized by K. Jordan (1920b: 163, 165).

Jordan K. 1920b. The status of Platysphinx bourkei Trimen (1910).
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Platysphinx bourkei Trimen, 1910 Holotype ♀ NHMUK Holotype ♀, NHMUK. South Africa [South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal], Zululand, Eshowe, iv.1909, leg. E. Bourke.
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