Genus Cephonodes Hübner, 1819

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cephonodes Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [131].

  Type species:

   Sphinx hylas Linnaeus, 1771 by subsequent designation, see Grote, A.R. & Robinson 1865. [Details not found]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 5 [172].
• Potidaea Wallengren, H.D.J. 1858. [Details not found]. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 5(4) [17].

  Type species:

   Potidaea virescens Wallengren, 1858 by original designation.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

SPHINGIDAE: Sphinx picus Cramer, 1777 [specimens identified as C. pycus in Australia represent C. cunninghami, see Moulds et al. 2020]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Moulds, M.S., Tuttle, J.P. & Lane, D.A. 2020. Hawkmoths of Australia: Identification, Biology and Distribution. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 13 pp. i-x, 1-414. [76]

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