Species Cerberonoton severina (Miskin, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macrosila severina Miskin, W.H. 1891. A revision of the Australian Sphingidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 8: 1-28 [25].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 1 ♂ 133 mm, 1 ♀ 140 mm, Cape York, QLD.

 

Generic Combinations

• Meganoton rubescens severina (Miskin, 1891). —
  Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1903. A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae Supplement 9: i-cxxxv, 1-972, pls 1-67 [37] (as subspecies of Meganoton rufescens Butler (1875), however specific name was unavailable and replacement name rubescens proposed by Butler (1876).)
• Cerberonoton rubescens severina (Miskin, 1891). —
  Zolotuhin, V.V. & Ryabov, S.A. 2012. The Hawkmoths of Vietnam. Ulyanovsk : Korporatsiya Teknologiy Prodvizhenya 239 pp. [197] (changed combination with placement of M. rubescens (Butler, 1876) as type species of Cerberonoton)

 

Introduction

This species was widely treated as a subspecies of Meganoton rubescens (Butler, 1876) following Rothschild & Jordan (1903)(as M. rufescens (Butler, 1875), an unavailable name). Based on the molecular results of Rougerie (2014), and morphological differences, Moulds et al. (2020) treat C. severina as a distinct species, with C. rubescens not recorded from Australia. We follow the classification of Moulds et al. (2020) here.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Mainly between Cape York and Mackay, QLD, but records as far south as Nambour, QLD; New Guinea, Solomon Islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Butler, A.G. 1875. Descriptions of new species of Sphingidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 238-261 [260]

Butler, A.G. 1876. Descriptions of several new species of Sphingidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 621-623 [623]

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. [85-88]

Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1903. A revision of the Lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae Supplement 9: i-cxxxv, 1-972, pls 1-67 [37] (as C. rufescens severina)

Rougerie, R., Kitching, I.J., Haxaire, J., Miller, S.E., Hausmann, A. & Veronicart P.D.N. 2014. Australian Sphingidae – DNA barcodes challenge current species boundaries and distributions. PloS ONE 9(7),. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 9(7) [e101108]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2024	Cerberonoton Zolotuhin & Ryabov, 2012	28-Aug-2020	MODIFIED
27-May-2016	Sphinginae	27-Aug-2020	MODIFIED
27-May-2016	Cerbernoton Zolotuhin & Ryabov, 2012	20-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
07-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)