Genus Daphnis Hübner, 1819
- Daphnis Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [134].
Type species:
Sphinx nerii Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Curtis, J. 1937. British Entomology; being descriptions and lillustrations of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. London : J. Curtis Vol. 14 648 pp. [626]. - Regia Tutt, J.W. 1903. Genera of the Eumorphid and Daphnid Sphinges. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 15: 100-101 [101].
Type species:
Daphnis torenia Druce, 1882 by original designation. - Histriosphinx Varis, V. 1976. Hystriosphynx gen. n., a new genus fro Sphynx nerii Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Notulae Entomologicae 56(4): 127-128 [127] [replacement name].
- Deilephila auctt.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
General References
Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [268] (Note #496: Daphnis Hübner, [1819] with type species Sphinx nerii Linnaeus, 1758 (Fletcher and. Nye 1982) has been misapplied by many authors (e.g. Hodges (1971)), who incorrectly considered Sphinx eacus Cramer, [1780] the type species)
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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| 07-Mar-2013 | 12-Jun-2014 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |