Species Cephonodes australis Kitching & Cadiou, 2000

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cephonodes hylas australis Kitching, I.J. & Cadiou, J.-M. 2000. Hawkmoths of the World, an annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). London; Ithaca & London : The Natural History Museum, Comstock Publishing Associates vii +226 pp. [89] [replacement name for C. hylas cunninghami].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Australia: Queensland, Milmerran.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 3♂ 1♀, same locality as for holotype.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cephonodes australis (Kitching & Cadiou, 2000). —
  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. [72]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cephonodes hylas cunninghami [a misidentification, available type material of C. cunninghami actually C. picus, see Kitching & Cadiou (2000)]. —
  Kitching, I.J. & Cadiou, J.-M. 2000. Hawkmoths of the World, an annotated and illustrated revisionary checklist (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). London; Ithaca & London : The Natural History Museum, Comstock Publishing Associates vii +226 pp.

 

Introduction

Cephonodes hylas australis Kitching & Cadiou (2000) raised to species by Moulds et al. (2020) based on the level of genetic and morphological differences with other Cephonodes species.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kimberley region WA to north of Darwin NT, and Cape York, QLD to Gosford, NSW

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)

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. [72]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Macroglossinae	11-Sep-2020	ADDED