Species Cephonodes cunninghami (Walker, 1856)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sesia cunninghami Walker, F. 1856. Sphingidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 8: 1-271 [85].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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].
• Macroglossa yunx Boisduval, J.-A. 1875. [1874] Sphingides, Sésiides, Castnides. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères Hétérocères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 1 568 pp. [dated 1874 but not published until 1875] [376] [junior objective synonym, S. cunninghami Walker 1856 is a Boisduval manuscript name made available by Walker (1856), and both S. cunninghami and M. yunx have the same specimen as their lectotypes].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cephonodes cunninghami (Walker, 1856). —
  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]
• Cephonodes hylas cunninghami (Walker, 1856). —
  Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1903. A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae Supplement 9: i-cxxxv, 1-972, pls 1-67 [468]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cephonodes picus Cramer, 1777 [a misidentification]. —
  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]

 

Introduction

Moulds et al. (2020) presented evidence that suggests the species referred to as C. picus in Australia is different to specimens collected from the Coromandel Coast, India (type location for C. picus). Based on genetic and morphological data they treated Australian specimens of 'C. picus' as a separate species, with the next available name being C. cunninghami (Walker, 1856), previously treated as a synonym of C. picus (see Moulds et al. (2020) for further details).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean, northwest corner of NT, and eastern QLD from Torres Strait to Brisbane; Timor, Philippines, Tuvalu (see Moulds et al. 2020)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

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

Distribution References

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]

 

History of changes

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